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Assembly Bill A3170

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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2017-A3170 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §171, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10763
2013-2014: A6033
2015-2016: A6767
2019-2020: A3112

2017-A3170 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A3170 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3170
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by 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:
   §  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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD08204-01-7

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