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Assembly Bill A6123

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Extends wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York

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2025-A6123 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5540
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3614-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5811, S5777

2025-A6123 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A6123 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6123
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. MEEKS, LUCAS, MAHER, GIBBS, BICHOTTE HERMELYN,
   GALLAHAN, DAVILA, EPSTEIN, SANTABARBARA, SEPTIMO, REYES --  read  once
   and referred 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  TWENTY-FIVE,
 THE  CASH  PORTION  OF  THE MINIMUM RATE OF HOME CARE AIDE TOTAL COMPEN-
 SATION SHALL BE THE MINIMUM RATE FOR THE APPLICABLE REGION,  AS  DEFINED
 IN  SECTION  THIRTY-SIX HUNDRED FOURTEEN-F OF THIS ARTICLE PLUS AN ADDI-
 TIONAL 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.
                                                            LBD08743-01-5

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