S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1028
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, CAHILL, RIVERA, JAFFEE, COLTON, GOTT-
FRIED -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABINANTI, MOYA, PERRY -- read
once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to restrictions on consec-
utive hours of work for nurses in the office of children and family
services
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 167 of the labor
law, as added by chapter 493 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
follows:
a. "Health care employer" shall mean any individual, partnership,
association, corporation, limited liability company or any person or
group of persons acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or in the
interest of the employer, which provides health care services (i) in a
facility licensed or operated pursuant to article twenty-eight of the
public health law, including any facility operated by the state, a poli-
tical subdivision or a public corporation as defined by section sixty-
six of the general construction law, or (ii) in a facility operated by
the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined by
section sixty-six of the general construction law, operated or licensed
pursuant to the mental hygiene law, the education law, ARTICLE NINE-
TEEN-G OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW or the correction law.
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.
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