senate Bill S3189

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the "fair pay for home care act"

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee


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Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 30, 2023 referred to health

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S3189 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3614-c & 3614-f, Pub Health L

S3189 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to increasing the base wage for home care aides.

S3189 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

S3189 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   3189
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  MAY,  ADDABBO,  BAILEY, BRESLIN, BRISPORT, BROUK,
   CLEARE,  COMRIE,  COONEY,  FELDER,  FERNANDEZ,   GIANARIS,   GONZALEZ,
   GOUNARDES,   HARCKHAM,   HELMING,   HINCHEY,  HOYLMAN-SIGAL,  JACKSON,
   KAVANAGH, KENNEDY, LIU, MANNION,  MAYER,  MYRIE,  OBERACKER,  PALUMBO,
   PARKER,  RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SANDERS, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO, SKOUFIS,
   STAVISKY, TEDISCO, THOMAS, WEIK -- 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 enacting the "fair
   pay for home care act"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "fair pay
 for home care act".
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 3614-f of  the  public  health  law,  as
 added  by  section  1  of  part XX of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   2. [In addition to the otherwise applicable minimum wage under section
 six hundred fifty-two of the labor law, or any otherwise applicable wage
 rule or order under article nineteen of the labor law] BEGINNING JANUARY
 FIRST, TWO THOUSAND TWENTY-FOUR, the minimum  wage for a home care  aide
 shall  be  [increased  by  an  amount of three dollars and zero cents in
 accordance with the following schedule:
   (a) beginning October first, two thousand twenty-two, the minimum wage
 for a home care aide shall be increased by an amount of two dollars  and
 zero cents, and
   (b)  beginning  October  first, two thousand twenty-three, the minimum
 wage for a home care aide shall be increased by an additional amount  of
 one dollar and zero cents] NO LESS THAN ONE HUNDRED FIFTY PERCENT OF THE
 OTHERWISE APPLICABLE STATEWIDE MINIMUM WAGE OR APPLICABLE REGIONAL MINI-
 MUM WAGE PURSUANT TO SECTION SIX HUNDRED FIFTY-TWO OF THE LABOR LAW.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01890-04-3
 S. 3189                             2

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