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Senate Bill S7811

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to the health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses

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2023-S7811 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6067
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §367-w, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
S7016, A4787

2023-S7811 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes any parent or parent of a minor who cares for such minor child with an intellectual or developmental disability within the health care and mental hygiene worker bonuses.

2023-S7811 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7811 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7811
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the health  care
   and mental hygiene worker bonuses
 
   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  367-w  of  the
 social  services  law, as added by section 1 of part ZZ of chapter 56 of
 the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   (a) "Employee" means certain front line health care and mental hygiene
 practitioners, technicians, assistants and aides that provide  hands  on
 health  or  care  services to individuals, without regard to whether the
 person works full-time, part-time, on a salaried, hourly,  or  temporary
 basis, or as an independent contractor, that received an annualized base
 salary of one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars or less, to include:
   (i)   [Physician]  PHYSICIAN  assistants,  dental  hygienists,  dental
 assistants, psychiatric aides, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians,  phys-
 ical  therapists,  physical  therapy assistants, physical therapy aides,
 occupational therapists, occupational therapy  assistants,  occupational
 therapy  aides,  speech-language  pathologists,  respiratory therapists,
 exercise physiologists, recreational therapists, all  other  therapists,
 orthotists,  prosthetists, clinical laboratory technologists and techni-
 cians, diagnostic medical sonographers, nuclear medicine  technologists,
 radiologic  technologists,  magnetic  resonance  imaging  technologists,
 ophthalmic medical technicians, radiation therapists,  dietetic  techni-
 cians,  cardiovascular  technologists  and  technicians, certified first
 responders, emergency medical technicians,  advanced  emergency  medical
 technicians,  paramedics, surgical technologists, all other health tech-
 nologists and technicians, orderlies, medical assistants, phlebotomists,
 all  other  health  care  support  workers,  nurse  anesthetists,  nurse
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07404-01-3
 S. 7811                             2

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