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Assembly Bill A134

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages

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2023-A134 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3118
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §13.17, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9566, S8054
2025-2026: A226, S4907

2023-A134 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages.

2023-A134 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    134
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on People with Disabilities
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in  relation  to  requiring  the
   office for people with developmental disabilities to create a staffing
   plan for workforce emergencies when experiencing staffing shortages
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 13.17 of the  mental  hygiene  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision (e) to read as follows:
   (E)  THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL ESTABLISH AN EMERGENCY STAFFING PLAN FOR
 STATE OPERATED FACILITIES IN EACH REGION. SUCH EMERGENCY  STAFFING  PLAN
 SHALL INCLUDE INCENTIVIZING THE CURRENT WORKFORCE THROUGH ENHANCED OVER-
 TIME  PAY,  ACTIONS  TO  IMPROVE  STAFFING THAT MINIMIZE THE TRANSFER OF
 INDIVIDUALS FROM THEIR RESIDENCES AND MOVEMENT OF  STAFF  BETWEEN  RESI-
 DENCES,  AND  ENHANCED  RECRUITMENT  INITIATIVES. THE EMERGENCY STAFFING
 PLAN SHALL BE IN EFFECT WHEN ANY REGION'S FILL LEVEL IS LESS THAN NINETY
 PERCENT.  THE EMERGENCY STAFFING PLAN SHALL BE MADE  PUBLICLY  AVAILABLE
 AND SHALL BE PUBLISHED ON THE OFFICE'S WEBSITE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02105-01-3

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