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Assembly Bill A226

2025-2026 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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2025-A226 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4907
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
2023-2024: A134, S3118

2025-A226 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A226 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    226
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced   by  M.  of  A.  CRUZ,  BUTTENSCHON,  STIRPE,  SANTABARBARA,
   SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, TAYLOR, RAGA, ZINERMAN,  COLTON  --  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.
                                                            LBD00151-01-5

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