Assembly Bill A10326A

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to prohibiting health care employers from penalizing employees because of complaints of employer violations

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via S8397 - Signed by Governor


  • 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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2019-A10326 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8397
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §741, Lab L

2019-A10326 - Summary

Prohibits health care employers from penalizing employees because of complaints of employer violations.

2019-A10326 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10326
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to  prohibiting  health  care
   employers  from  penalizing  employees  because complaints of employer
   violations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 741 of the labor
 law, as added by chapter 24 of the laws of 2002, is amended to  read  as
 follows:
   (a) discloses or threatens to disclose to a supervisor, or to a public
 body,  OR  TO  THE GENERAL PUBLIC an activity, policy or practice of the
 employer or agent that the employee, in good faith, reasonably  believes
 constitutes improper quality of patient care; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD16155-01-0



              

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2019-A10326A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8397
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §741, Lab L

2019-A10326A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits health care employers from penalizing employees because of complaints of employer violations.

2019-A10326A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10326--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 22, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the labor law, in relation to prohibiting health care
   employers from penalizing employees because of complaints of  employer
   violations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of section 741 of the labor law, as
 added by chapter 24 of the laws of 2002, paragraph (b) of subdivision  1
 as  amended  by  chapter 505 of the laws of 2003, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. Definitions. As used in this section,  the  following  terms  shall
 have the following meanings:
   (a)  "Employee" means any person who performs health care services for
 and under the control and direction of any public  or  private  employer
 which provides health care services for wages or other remuneration.
   (b)  "Employer"  means  any partnership, association, corporation, the
 state, or any political subdivision of the  state  which:  (i)  provides
 health  care services in a facility licensed pursuant to article twenty-
 eight or thirty-six of the public health law; (ii) provides health  care
 services  within  a  primary  or  secondary  public or private school or
 public or private university setting; (iii) operates and provides health
 care services under the mental hygiene law or  the  correction  law;  or
 (iv)  is registered with the department of education pursuant to section
 sixty-eight hundred eight of the education law.
   (c) "Agent" means any  individual,  partnership,  association,  corpo-
 ration, or group of persons acting on behalf of an employer.
   (d)  "Improper quality of patient care" means, with respect to patient
 care, any practice, procedure, action or failure to act of  an  employer
 which  violates  any law, rule, regulation or declaratory ruling adopted
 pursuant to law, where such violation relates to matters which may pres-
 ent a substantial and specific danger to public health or  safety  or  a
 significant threat to the health of a specific patient.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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