What's happening
This bill requires the state home care worker registry to include records of each worker's annually required in-service training and hours completed.
Why it matters
Improves transparency and accountability. by ensuring that each home care worker's annual training records are documented in a centralized state registry, making it easier to verify if workers are up-to-date with their required education.
Supports quality assurance and patient safety. because agencies, employers, and regulators can quickly confirm that workers have completed necessary in-service training, thus promoting higher standards for care.
Facilitates workforce mobility and efficiency. since workers’ up-to-date training records are readily accessible, reducing administrative burdens when workers change employers or seek new opportunities within the state.
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History
- Vetoed memo.184
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.197
- Substituted for A7854
- Referred to health
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 58–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.840
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- Referred to health
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Track Home Care Training
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Richard Gottfried
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5605
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 8, 2019
Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 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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Title of bill
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
Purpose or general idea of bill
Allows an individual's annual in-service training and hours to be submitted for inclusion in the Home Care Worker Registry by the home care services entity conducting the in-service for the worker.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1 amends subdivision 3 of section 3613 by allowing the record of each in-service training and hours completed by the worker to be entered into the Home Care Worker Registry by the home care services entity conducting the in-service for the worker.
Section 2 establishes the effective date.
Justification
Many aides work for more than one agency and it is very difficult to track the amount of in-service training hours they have satisfied when each agency provides such training. Requiring that home care providers update the registry with in-service training hours will ensure that there is a record of the number of hours of in-service training courses each aide has taken; ensure that aides take the required amount (6 hours for PCAs and 12 hours for HHAs) and required topics on an annual basis; allow agencies to correctly track how aides are fulfilling these requirements; save agencies time and resources as they will not have to verify such training with their aides' current and/or past employers; and avoid duplication that results when agencies provide similar train- ing to aides who work for more than one agency because they cannot veri- fy their satisfaction of the in-service requirements.
Fiscal implications
To be determined
Effective date
January 1 after the bill becomes law.
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