NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A4662A
SPONSOR: Burdick TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to competency exams
offered to qualified home care services workers residing outside this
state
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this legislation is to amend the public health law by
requiring the department to maintain a schedule of when they will offer
competency exams to qualified home care service workers residing outside
this state in order to fill any shortage of home care services working
in this state.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends Section 3613 of the public health law by adding subdi-
vision 7-a which would require the department to maintain a schedule of
when the department shall offer competency exams to qualified home care
services workers residing outside this state. It also requires that such
schedule shall be made available on the department's website and readily
accessible by the public.
Section 2 sets effective date
JUSTIFICATION:
New York is currently facing a deficit in home health care workers and
companies are currently outsourcing workers from neighboring states.
Making a schedule of when the department is offering competency exams
makes it easier for out of state workers to fill those positions and in
return aiding in the shortage of home care workers.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
This is a new bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the State.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have
become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4662--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BURDICK, FERNANDEZ, OTIS, CLARK, JACKSON, RICH-
ARDSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- commit-
tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recom-
mitted to said committee
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.
LBD03919-02-1
