Assembly Bill A2931

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes evidence-based, flexible staffing models for general hospitals and nursing homes

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A2931 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 28-F §§2900 - 2900-d, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A7445

2023-A2931 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes evidence-based, flexible staffing models for general hospitals and nursing homes; establishes a commission on hospital staffing to review and update hospital staffing models; establishes a commission on nursing home staffing to review and update nursing home staffing models; provides such models shall be based on the best available evidence regarding staffing and patient safety, provide hospitals or nursing homes with the opportunity to adjust staffing levels in response to the relative skill of the professional staff and the current acuity of the patients, address the patient care roles played by direct-care nursing staff, non-nursing direct-care staff, and allied health professionals, and be adaptable to the relative availability of staff in the regional labor market where the facility is located.

2023-A2931 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2931
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health law, in relation to establishing
   evidence-based, flexible staffing models  for  general  hospitals  and
   nursing homes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  article
 28-F to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 28-F
               SAFE STAFFING IN HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES
 
 SECTION 2900.   DEFINITIONS.
         2900-A. COMMISSION ON HOSPITAL STAFFING.
         2900-B. HOSPITAL STAFFING MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS.
         2900-C. COMMISSION ON NURSING HOME STAFFING.
         2900-D. NURSING HOME STAFFING MODELS AND REQUIREMENTS.
   § 2900. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE, THE TERM:
   1.  "HOSPITAL"  MEANS A GENERAL HOSPITAL AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-
 EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   2. "NURSING HOME" MEANS A NURSING HOME AS DEFINED IN  SECTION  TWENTY-
 EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   3. "NURSE" MEANS A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE OR LICENSED PRACTICAL
 NURSE LICENSED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-NINE OF THE EDUCA-
 TION LAW.
   4.  "ALLIED  HEALTHCARE  PROFESSIONAL"  MEANS  A  PERSON, OTHER THAN A
 NURSE, PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT, SPECIALIST  ASSISTANT,  OR  NURSE
 PRACTITIONER,  WHO  IS  LICENSED  OR  CERTIFIED TO PRACTICE A HEALTHCARE
 PROFESSION UNDER TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION  LAW,  ACTING  WITHIN  THE
 SCOPE OF HIS OR HER PRACTICE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06280-01-3
 A. 2931                             2
              

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