Senate Bill S1997

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses

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  • 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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2021-S1997 - Details

Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §167, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6311
2019-2020: S5424

2021-S1997 - Summary

Assesses an employer a civil penalty where an employer requires a nurse to work more than such nurse's regularly scheduled work hours; provides that the employee shall receive an additional fifteen percent of the overtime payment from the employer for each violation.

2021-S1997 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1997 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1997
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. JACKSON, BENJAMIN, BIAGGI, SALAZAR -- read twice and
   ordered  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
   Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor  law,  in  relation  to  the  restrictions  on
   consecutive hours of work for nurses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 167 of the labor law, as added by  chapter  493  of
 the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   §  167.  Restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses. 1. When
 used in this section:
   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,  THE  SOCIAL
 SERVICES LAW or the correction law.
   b.  "Nurse"  shall  mean a registered professional nurse or a licensed
 practical nurse as defined by article one  hundred  thirty-nine  of  the
 education law who provides direct patient care.
   c.  "Regularly  scheduled work hours", including pre-scheduled on-call
 time and the time spent for the purpose of communicating  shift  reports
 regarding  patient status necessary to ensure patient safety, shall mean
 those hours a nurse has agreed to work and is normally scheduled to work
 pursuant to the budgeted hours allocated to the nurse's position by  the

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

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2021-S1997A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §167, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S6311
2019-2020: S5424

2021-S1997A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Assesses an employer a civil penalty where an employer requires a nurse to work more than such nurse's regularly scheduled work hours; provides that the employee shall receive an additional fifteen percent of the overtime payment from the employer for each violation.

2021-S1997A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1997A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  1997--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  JACKSON,  BIAGGI, BROUK, HOYLMAN, MANNION, RAMOS,
   SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Labor -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Labor   in  accordance  with  Senate  Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor  law,  in  relation  to  the  restrictions  on
   consecutive hours of work for nurses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 167 of the labor law, as added by  chapter  493  of
 the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
   §  167.  Restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses. 1. When
 used in this section:
   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  [or],  the
 correction law, OR SECTION FIVE HUNDRED FOUR OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW.
   b.  "Nurse"  shall  mean a registered professional nurse or a licensed
 practical nurse as defined by article one  hundred  thirty-nine  of  the
 education law who provides direct patient care.
   c.  "Regularly  scheduled work hours", including pre-scheduled on-call
 time and the time spent for the purpose of communicating  shift  reports

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02199-03-2
              

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