Bill Text: NY S00965 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes certified nursing assistants in provisions of law relating to restrictions on consecutive hours of work.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-01-09 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S00965 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S00965-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 965 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, FUNKE, GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to including certified nurs- ing assistants in provisions of law relating to restrictions on consecutive hours of work The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 167 of the labor 2 law, as added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2008, is amended and a new 3 paragraph d is added to read as follows: 4 b. "Nurse" shall mean a registered professional nurse or a licensed 5 practical nurse as defined by article one hundred thirty-nine of the 6 education law who provides direct patient care, or a certified nursing 7 assistant as defined in this subdivision. 8 d. "Certified nursing assistant" shall mean a person who has success- 9 fully completed a nurse aide training and/or competency evaluation 10 program administered by the department of health and/or is currently 11 listed in the nurse aide registry. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00477-01-9
