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A06571 Summary:
| BILL NO | A06571 |
| SAME AS | SAME AS S03691-A |
| SPONSOR | Gottfried (MS) |
| COSPNSR | Gunther, Millman, Clark, Jacobs, Peoples-Stokes, Rosenthal, Brindisi, Bronson, Colton, Benedetto, Camara, Jaffee, Magnarelli, Markey, Miller, Weprin, Rivera, Roberts, Ryan, Skartados, Sepulveda, Aubry, Otis, Skoufis, Steck, Mayer, Santabarbara, Zebrowski, Brook-Krasny, Mosley, Ortiz, Titus |
| MLTSPNSR | Abbate, Abinanti, Arroyo, Brennan, Butler, Cahill, Ceretto, Cook, Crespo, Cusick, Cymbrowitz, Davila, Dinowitz, Englebright, Fahy, Farrell, Glick, Graf, Heastie, Hooper, Johns, Kearns, Kellner, Lavine, Lifton, Lupardo, Lupinacci, Magee, McDonough, McKevitt, Montesano, Nolan, Paulin, Perry, Pretlow, Ra, Ramos, Robinson, Russell, Saladino, Scarborough, Schimel, Simotas, Solages, Sweeney, Tedisco, Thiele, Titone, Weinstein, Weisenberg, Wright |
| Amd Pub Health L, generally | |
| Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment. | |