Bill Text: NY A10567 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires that COVID-19 contact tracers be representative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in which they serve to the greatest extent possible.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-11-27 - signed chap.294 [A10567 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10567-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        10567--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 3, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Jean-Pierre,
          Stern,  De La Rosa,  Dickens, Mosley, Simon) -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Health -- reported and referred to  the  Committee
          on  Rules  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT in relation to requiring that COVID-19 contact tracers be  repre-
          sentative  of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities
          in which they serve to the greatest extent possible; and providing for
          the repeal of such provisions upon the expiration thereof

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The department of health, a county department of health, or
     2  other  entity that hires persons after the effective date of this act to
     3  perform contact tracing pertaining to COVID-19 infections, except within
     4  a city with a population of one million or more, shall, to the  greatest
     5  extent  possible,  hire  contact  tracers  who are representative of the
     6  cultural and linguistic diversity  of  the  communities  in  which  they
     7  serve.
     8    §  2.  Each county department of health, except in a city with a popu-
     9  lation of one million or more, shall  compile  data  collected  by  each
    10  entity,  when  applicable,  and  post information on their website about
    11  contact tracer worker diversity  within  the  county.  Such  information
    12  shall be updated annually.
    13    §  3.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
    14  deemed repealed January 1, 2022.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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