Amends the definition of "caregiver" for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history information of such person to include persons employed to provide 15 or more hours of care per week to senior, ill and disabled persons in the home of such senior, ill or disabled person.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3950
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. OPPENHEIMER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the definition of
caregiver for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history informa-
tion of such person
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 837-n of the
2 executive law, as added by chapter 3 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 (a) "Caregiver" shall mean a person employed to provide fifteen or
5 more hours of care per week to a child or children, senior or seniors,
6 or person or persons having an illness or disability in the home of such
7 a child or children, senior or seniors, or person or persons having an
8 illness or disability.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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