Amends the definition of "health care personnel" to define the term "temporary services" as health care services contracted for an initial term of less than twenty-four continuous months.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8837
IN SENATE
March 19, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to temporary services
provided by "health care personnel"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 2999-ii of the public health law,
2 as added by section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 4. "Health care personnel" means nurses, certified nurse aides and
5 licensed or unlicensed direct care staff provided by the temporary
6 health care services agency to provide temporary services in a health
7 care entity. For such health care personnel, "temporary services" shall
8 mean health care services contracted for an initial term of less than
9 twenty-four continuous months.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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