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Senate Bill S5777

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Extends wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York

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2023-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5811
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3614-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S5540, A6123

2023-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Extends wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York.

2023-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S5777 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5777
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 15, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  extending  wage
   parity for home care workers in upstate New York
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3614-c of the public health law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
   (C) THE MINIMUM RATE OF HOME CARE AIDE COMPENSATION  IN  ALL  COUNTIES
 OTHER THAN BRONX, QUEENS, KINGS, NEW YORK, RICHMOND, NASSAU, SUFFOLK AND
 WESTCHESTER SHALL BE:
   FOR  ALL  PERIODS  ON OR AFTER OCTOBER FIRST, TWO THOUSAND AND TWENTY-
 THREE, THE CASH PORTION OF THE MINIMUM RATE  OF  HOME  CARE  AIDE  TOTAL
 COMPENSATION  SHALL  BE  THE  MINIMUM RATE FOR THE APPLICABLE REGION, AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED FOURTEEN-F OF THIS ARTICLE PLUS AN
 ADDITIONAL THREE DOLLARS AND TWENTY-TWO CENTS PER HOUR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10061-01-3

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