New York S 5462: Relates to compliance with substantially equivalent education by nonpublic schools

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S05462 Summary:

BILL NOS05462 

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SAME ASSAME AS A02032

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §211-b, Pub Health L

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Establishes temporary health care staffing agencies to assist qualified health care professionals to find temporary employment at health care facilities.

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BILL NOS05462 

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02/21/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5462

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- 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 establishing
 temporary health care staffing agencies

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

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 211-b to read as follows:
 3 § 211-b. Temporary health care staffing agency. 1. Whenever used in
 4 this section:
 5 a. "Temporary health care staffing agency" means a person that is
 6 regularly engaged in the business of providing or procuring, whether as
 7 an employee of the temporary health care staffing agency or as an inde-
 8 pendent contractor, for a fee, health care professionals to serve as
 9 temporary staff for health care facilities. Temporary health care staff-
 10 ing agency also includes any web-based or app-based staffing agencies.
 11 "Temporary health care staffing agency" shall not include any of the
 12 following: (1) a government agency; or (2) a health care facility that
 13 provides less than five staff members in aggregate to other health care
 14 facilities.
 15 b. "Health care facility" means: (1) a hospital as defined in section
 16 twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter; (2) a nursing home as defined
 17 by such section; and (3) a residential health care facility as defined
 18 by such section.
 19 c. "Health care professional" means: (1) any person licensed under
 20 articles one hundred thirty-one, one hundred thirty-one-B, one hundred
 21 fifty-three, one hundred sixty, one hundred sixty-two, one hundred
 22 sixty-three, one hundred sixty-four, one hundred sixty-five, one hundred
 23 sixty-six, one hundred sixty-seven or one hundred sixty-eight of the
 24 education law; and (2) any person certified under articles thirty-five,
 25 thirty-six, thirty-seven or thirty-seven-A of this chapter.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03550-01-5

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 1 d. "Temporary employee" shall mean a health care professional hired
 2 through a temporary health care staffing agency for temporary placement
 3 at a health care facility.
 4 2. a. Each temporary health care staffing agency shall annually regis-
 5 ter with the department of health. For purposes of the registration
 6 requirement, each physical location of a health care staffing agency
 7 shall separately register with the department of health.
 8 b. The commissioner shall establish the registration application forms
 9 and procedures pursuant to this subdivision. Each registration applica-
 10 tion shall be accompanied by the fee set forth in paragraph c of this
 11 subdivision and include at least the following:
 12 (1) (i) the name and address of each owner with an interest of twen-
 13 ty-five percent or more in the temporary health care staffing agency,
 14 except that if that information does not result in a disclosure of at
 15 least eighty-five percent of the ownership of the agency, all owners
 16 shall be disclosed;
 17 (ii) if an owner is not a natural person, the name and address of each
 18 natural person with more than a twenty-five percent interest in that
 19 owner.
 20 (2) if the temporary health care staffing agency, or an owner, is a
 21 corporation, a copy of the associated articles of incorporation and
 22 current bylaws, and the name and address of each officer and director;
 23 (3) a copy of the temporary health care staffing agency's polic