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Senate Bill S7998

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to home care worker wage parity

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2015-S7998 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10320
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3614-c, Pub Health L

2015-S7998 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the minimum rate of home care aide total compensation.

2015-S7998 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7998 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7998

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              June 2, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to home  care  worker
  wage parity

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3  of
section 3614-c of the public health law, as amended by chapter 56 of the
laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
  (iv)  for  all  periods on or after April first, two thousand sixteen,
the cash portion of the minimum rate of home  care  aide  total  compen-
sation shall be ten dollars or the minimum wage as laid out in paragraph
[(c)]  (A)  of  subdivision  one of section six hundred fifty-two of the
labor law, whichever is higher. The benefit portion of the minimum  rate
of  home  care  aide  total  compensation shall be four dollars and nine
cents.
  S 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (b) of subdivision  3  of  section
3614-c of the public health law, as amended by chapter 56 of the laws of
2016, is amended to read as follows:
  (iv)  for  all  periods on or after March first, two thousand sixteen,
the cash portion of the minimum rate of home  care  aide  total  compen-
sation shall be ten dollars or the minimum wage as laid out in paragraph
[(c)]  (B)  of  subdivision  one of section six hundred fifty-two of the
labor law, whichever is higher. The benefit portion of the minimum  rate
of  home care aide total compensation shall be three dollars and twenty-
two cents.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and  same  manner  as
chapter 56 of the laws of 2016 took effect.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14990-01-6

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