Bill Text: NY S07298 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that criminal history record checks received from the division of criminal justice services shall be available to nursing home and home care service agencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-30 - SIGNED CHAP.88 [S07298 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07298-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7298
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 13, 2016
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        Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- (at request of the Department of Health) --
          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  the  criminal
          history  record  check program for employees of nursing homes and home
          care service agencies
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 7 of section 2899-a of the public health law,
     2  as amended by chapter 331 of the laws of 2006  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    7.  The  department promptly shall make all determinations and actions
     5  required by subdivision five of section eight  hundred  forty-five-b  of
     6  the  executive  law upon receipt of the information from the division of
     7  criminal justice services and the federal bureau of  investigation.  The
     8  department  shall  create  a permanent record, update the information in
     9  accordance with section eight hundred forty-five-b of the executive  law
    10  and  make  [such] only records or information received from the division
    11  of criminal justice services available to  providers  pursuant  to  this
    12  section.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14347-01-6