Amends the definition of "caregiver" for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history information of such person to include persons employed to provide 15 or more hours of care per week to senior, ill and disabled persons in the home of such senior, ill or disabled person.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N A S S E M B L Y
June 11, 2010
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Koon) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the definition of
caregiver for the purpose of obtaining the criminal history informa-
tion of such person
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 837-n of the
executive law, as added by chapter 3 of the laws of 1998, is amended to
read as follows:
(a) "Caregiver" shall mean a person employed to provide fifteen or
more hours of care per week to a child or children, SENIOR OR SENIORS,
OR PERSON OR PERSONS HAVING AN ILLNESS OR DISABILITY in the home of such
a child or children, SENIOR OR SENIORS, OR PERSON OR PERSONS HAVING AN
ILLNESS OR DISABILITY.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09114-01-9
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