Bill Text: NY S01201 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to competency exams offered to qualified home care services workers residing outside this state.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-02 - SUBSTITUTED BY A4662A [S01201 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01201-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1201--A
            Cal. No. 657

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  HARCKHAM,  MAY,  SERINO -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Health
          -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
          report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
          the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
          third reading

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  competency  exams
          offered  to qualified home care services workers residing outside this
          state

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

     1    Section  1. Section 3613 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 7-a to read as follows:
     3    7-a. The department in consultation with the department  of  education
     4  shall  maintain  a  schedule  setting forth when training programs offer
     5  competency exams  to  qualified  home  care  services  workers  residing
     6  outside  this  state in order to fill any shortage of home care services
     7  workers working in this state. Such schedule shall be made available  on
     8  the department's website and readily accessible by the public.
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    11  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    12  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    13  on or before such date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03919-03-1