Bill Text: NY A03645 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3645 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: 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.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A03645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03645-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3645
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. COLTON, M. G. MILLER, HOOPER, KEARNS -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLAKE, COOK, CROUCH, RIVERA,  SIMON  --  read
          once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
        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.
                                                                   LBD04961-01-7