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A7854Assembly2019-2020 SessionSame asS5605

Track Home Care Training

Official title

“Includes the record of completion of annually required in-service education in the state home care worker registry”

Sponsor Richard GottfriedAD-75+1 co-sponsorAffects Health
Status
Assembly Floor Calendar
Impact
3/10
Low
Passage
0%

Bill progress

Vetoed via S5605

What's happening

This bill requires that completion records of annual in-service education for home care workers be included in the state registry.

Why it matters

  1. Creates greater accountability and transparency. by requiring home care agencies to report each worker’s completion of annual in-service training to the state registry, making it easier to verify workforce qualifications.

  2. May help protect patient safety and care quality. by ensuring that only workers who have completed required ongoing education are listed as eligible in the registry.

  3. Simplifies compliance checks for employers and regulators. , potentially making hiring and oversight more efficient and reducing the risk of untrained workers being assigned to vulnerable clients.

  4. Supports workers’ professional development and mobility. , as their up-to-date training records would be accessible in the registry, making it easier to demonstrate qualifications when changing employers.

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Track Home Care Training

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Sponsors

Primary sponsor
Richard Gottfried

Assembly Member · Assembly District 75

1 Co-sponsor

History

  1. Substituted by S5605
  2. Ordered to third reading rules cal.197
  3. Rules report cal.197
  4. Reported
  5. Reported referred to rules
  6. Referred to health

Companion bill

The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.

S5605Senate

Track Home Care Training

Vetoed · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera

Impact 3 · LowVetoed

Full text

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STATE OF NEW YORK

7854

2019-2020 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

May 24, 2019

Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including the record of completion of annually required in-service education in the state home care worker registry

The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3613 of the public health law is amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:

(i) A record of each in-service training and hours completed by the worker toward fulfillment of his/her annual in-service training requirements stipulated in the regulations of the department; such record of completion shall be timely submitted for inclusion in the registry for each worker by the home care services entity conducting the in-service for such worker.

§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

[ ] is old law to be omitted.

LBD11535-01-9

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