New York A 1903: Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers

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A01903 Summary:

BILL NOA01903 

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SAME ASSAME AS S04465

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRJacobson, Reyes, Benedetto, Hevesi, Eachus, DeStefano, Shrestha, Ramos, Steck, Seawright, Dinowitz,
 Taylor, Sayegh, Rosenthal, Alvarez, Lasher, Zaccaro, Kay, Schiavoni, Smith, Conrad, McMahon, Rozic,
 Clark, Gandolfo, Morinello, Rivera, Kassay, Carroll R, Shimsky, Gonzalez-Rojas, Kelles, Cruz,
 Colton, Raga, Stirpe, Simone, Barrett, Lee, Giglio, O'Pharrow, Simon, Gallagher, Levenberg, Durso,
 Griffin, Bronson

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §167, Lab L

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Restricts consecutive hours of work for health care workers except in the case of certain emergencies and surgical procedures.

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BILL NOA01903 

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01/14/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1903

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, JACOBSON, REYES, BENEDETTO, HEVESI,
 EACHUS, DeSTEFANO, SHRESTHA, RAMOS, STECK -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to restricting consecutive
 hours of work for health care workers

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

 1 Section 1. The section heading and subdivisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of
 2 section 167 of the labor law, as amended by chapter 815 of the laws of
 3 2022, paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 27 of the
 4 laws of 2023, are amended to read as follows:
 5 Restrictions on consecutive hours of work for nurses and health care
 6 workers. 1. When used in this section:
 7 a. "Health care employer" shall mean any individual, partnership,
 8 association, corporation, limited liability company or any person or
 9 group of persons acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or in the
 10 interest of the employer, which provides health care services (i) in a
 11 facility licensed or operated pursuant to article twenty-eight of the
 12 public health law, including any facility operated by the state, a poli-
 13 tical subdivision or a public corporation as defined by section sixty-
 14 six of the general construction law, or (ii) in a facility operated by
 15 the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined by
 16 section sixty-six of the general construction law, operated or licensed
 17 pursuant to the mental hygiene law, the education law, the correction
 18 law, or section five hundred four of the executive law.
 19 b. "Nurse" shall mean a registered professional nurse or a licensed
 20 practical nurse as defined by article one hundred thirty-nine of the
 21 education law who provides direct patient care.
 22 c. "Regularly scheduled work hours", including pre-scheduled on-call
 23 time and the time spent for the purpose of communicating shift reports
 24 regarding patient status necessary to ensure patient safety, shall mean

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04743-01-5

 A. 1903 2

 1 those hours a nurse or health care worker has agreed to work and is
 2 normally scheduled to work pursuant to the budgeted hours allocated to
 3 the nurse's or health care worker's position by the health care employ-
 4 er; and if no such allocation system exists, some other measure general-
 5 ly used by the health care employer to determine when an employee is
 6 minimally supposed to work, consistent with the collective bargaining
 7 agreement, if any. Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit
 8 an employer to use on-call time as a substitute for mandatory overtime.
 9 d. "Health care worker" shall mean personnel employed by or contracted
 10 to work for a health care employer who have an effect upon the delivery
 11 of quality care to patients, including but not limited to unlicensed
 12 assistive personnel, service, maintenance, clerical, professional and
 13 technical workers, and all other health care workers. For purposes of
 14 this section, doctors, interns, residents and facility