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Senate Bill S8476

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires that COVID-19 contact tracers in the counties of Suffolk and Nassau be representative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in which they serve to the greatest extent possible

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2019-S8476 (ACTIVE) - Details

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Senate Rules
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Suffolk County

2019-S8476 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that COVID-19 contact tracers in the counties of Suffolk and Nassau be representative of the cultural and linguistic diversity of the communities in which they serve to the greatest extent possible; further requires the Suffolk county department of health services and the Nassau county department of health services to annually submit a report on contact tracer worker diversity within the counties of Suffolk and Nassau including outreach efforts to recruit a diverse workforce to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assembly beginning no later than December 31, 2020.

2019-S8476 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8476 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8476
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               June 3, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to require that COVID-19  contact  tracers  in  the  counties  of
   Suffolk  and  Nassau  be representative of the cultural and linguistic
   diversity of the communities in  which  they  serve  to  the  greatest
   extent  possible; and providing for the repeal of such provisions upon
   the expiration thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  Suffolk County department of health services and any
 other Suffolk County agency, and any entity that hires persons after the
 effective date of this act to  perform  contact  tracing  pertaining  to
 COVID-19 infections within the county of Suffolk, shall, to the greatest
 extent  possible,  hire  contact  tracers  who are representative of the
 cultural and linguistic diversity  of  the  communities  in  which  they
 serve.
   §  2.  The Suffolk County department of health services shall annually
 submit a report on contact tracer worker diversity within the county  of
 Suffolk including outreach efforts to recruit a diverse workforce to the
 governor,  the  temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the
 assembly beginning no later than December 31, 2020.
   § 3. The Nassau County department of health and any other Nassau Coun-
 ty agency, and any entity that hires persons after the effective date of
 this act to perform contact tracing pertaining  to  COVID-19  infections
 within  the  county  of  Nassau, shall, to the greatest extent possible,
 hire contact tracers who are representative of the cultural and linguis-
 tic diversity of the communities in which they serve.
   § 4. The Nassau County department of health shall  annually  submit  a
 report  on  contact  tracer worker diversity within the county of Nassau
 including outreach efforts to recruit a diverse workforce to the  gover-
 nor, the temporary president of the senate and the speaker of the assem-
 bly beginning no later than December 31, 2020.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
 deemed repealed January 1, 2022.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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