Assembly Bill A10763

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Prohibits direct-care workers from working two double shifts within any two day period

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §171, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A6033
2015-2016: A6767
2017-2018: A3170
2019-2020: A3112

2011-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits direct-care workers from working two double shifts within any two day period.

2011-A10763 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10763

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 18, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Ortiz) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Labor

AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  prohibiting  direct-care
  workers from working two double shifts within any two day period

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a  new  section  171  to
read as follows:
  S  171.  DOUBLE SHIFTS FOR DIRECT-CARE WORKERS. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING TERMS SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
  A. "DIRECT-CARE WORKER" SHALL MEAN ANY EMPLOYEE WHO IS NOT A NURSE  OR
OTHER  PERSON LICENSED, CERTIFIED OR REGISTERED UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE
EDUCATION LAW WHOSE PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITY  IS  TO  CARRY  OUT  DIRECT
PATIENT  CARE  FOR  ONE OR MORE PATIENTS OR PROVIDE DIRECT ASSISTANCE IN
THE DELIVERY OF PATIENT CARE.
  B. "DOUBLE SHIFT" SHALL MEAN A WORK DAY COMPRISED OF TWICE THE  LENGTH
OF A NORMAL WORKING PERIOD.
  2.  NO  DIRECT-CARE  WORKER  SHALL  BE PERMITTED TO WORK MORE THAN ONE
DOUBLE SHIFT IN ANY FORTY-EIGHT HOUR PERIOD.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD16119-01-2

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