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A04297 Summary:

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Add Art 37-B §§3720 - 3723, Pub Health L

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Establishes training and registration requirements for patient care technicians; requires training programs to be conducted by hospitals, residential health care facilities, home care services agencies, degree and non-degree granting institutions of higher education, or any other entity approved by the commissioner to conduct such a program; provides such training shall include, but not be limited to an overview of the roles and responsibilities of patient care technicians in hospitals, residential care facilities and the home care environment, an overview of various patient care services provided in hospitals, residential care facilities and the home care environment, and the legal scope of practice for patient care technicians; defines terms.

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02/04/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 4297

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

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

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing
 training and registration requirements for patient care technicians

 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 article
 2 37-B to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 37-B
 4 PATIENT CARE TECHNICIANS
 5 Section 3720. Definitions.
 6 3721. Training requirements for patient care technicians.
 7 3722. Patient care technician; use of title and provision of
 8 services.
 9 3723. Exemption.
 10 § 3720. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 11 terms shall have the following meanings:
 12 1. "Patient care technician" means any person, other than a healthcare
 13 professional or a certified nurse aide, who performs patient care tech-
 14 nician services on a human in a hospital, a residential health care
 15 facility, or a home as part of the provision of home care services and
 16 has successfully completed the training requirements established pursu-
 17 ant to section thirty-seven hundred twenty-one of this article and the
 18 registration requirement established pursuant to section thirty-seven
 19 hundred twenty-two of this article.
 20 2. "Patient care technician trainee" means any person, other than a
 21 healthcare professional or a certified nurse aide, who performs patient
 22 care technician services on a human in a hospital, a residential health
 23 care facility, or a home as part of the provision of home care services
 24 and has enrolled in or completed the training required by section thir-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 1 ty-seven hundred twenty-one of this article and has not registered
 2 pursuant to section thirty-seven hundred twenty-two of this article.
 3 3. "Hospital" means a hospital as defined in section twenty-eight
 4 hundred one of this chapter.
 5 4. "Residential health care facility" means a residential health care
 6 facility as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter.
 7 5. "Home care services" means home care services as defined in section
 8 thirty-six hundred two of this chapter.
 9 6. "Healthcare professional" means a person licensed or certified to
 10 practice a healthcare profession under title eight of the education law,
 11 acting within the scope of their practice.
 12 7. "Certified nurse aide" means any person included in the nursing
 13 home nurse aide registry pursuant to section twenty-eight hundred
 14 three-j of this chapter.
 15 § 3721. Training requirements for patient care technicians. 1. The
 16 commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of education, shall
 17 establish training requirements for patient care technicians.
 18 2. The training requireme