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A08615 Summary:

BILL NOA08615 

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SAME ASSAME AS S07994

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SPONSORBronson

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COSPNSRKay, Hevesi

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd 167, Lab L; amd 6510-e, Ed L

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Adds home care visits to existing provisions of law prohibiting health care employers from requiring a nurse to work more than such nurse's regularly scheduled work hours, including regularly scheduled home care visits.

Go to top A08615 Actions:

BILL NOA08615 

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05/22/2025referred to labor

01/07/2026referred to labor

05/21/2026reported referred to codes

05/28/2026reported referred to rules

Go to topA08615 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:LABOR Chair:Bronson 
DATE:05/21/2026AYE/NAY:25/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Codes BronsonAyeDursoAye

ColtonAyeBrabenecAye

BenedettoExcusedDiPietroExcused

RozicExcusedMorinelloAye

SteckAyeDeStefanoAye

CruzAyeGiglioAye

ReyesExcusedSlaterAye

RamosAyeNorberAye

JacobsonAyeSempolinskiAye

ZinermanAye

TaylorAye

TapiaAye

LucasAye

AlvarezAye

RagaAye

RiveraAye

BoresAye

SimoneAye

BurroughsAye

AndersonAye

Committee:CODES Chair:Dinowitz 
DATE:05/28/2026AYE/NAY:15/3 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules DinowitzAyeMorinelloAye

CookExcusedReillyNay

LavineAyeMikulinExcused

WeprinAyeTannousisNay

HevesiAyeAngelinoAye

SeawrightAyeMolitorNay

RosenthalAye

WalkerAye

VanelAbsent

CruzAye

BoresExcused

ReyesAye

CunninghamAye

RomeroAye

AlvarezAye

TaylorAye

Go to topA08615 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA08615 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8615

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 May 22, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Labor

 AN ACT to amend the labor law and the education law, in relation to the
 hours worked by nurses in home care settings

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 167 of the labor law, as amended
 2 by chapter 815 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 3 1. When used in this section:
 4 a. "Health care employer" shall mean any individual, partnership,
 5 association, corporation, limited liability company or any person or
 6 group of persons acting directly or indirectly on behalf of or in the
 7 interest of the employer, which provides health care services (i) in a
 8 facility licensed or operated pursuant to article twenty-eight and arti-
 9 cle thirty-six of the public health law, including any facility operated
 10 by the state, a political subdivision or a public corporation as defined
 11 by section sixty-six of the general construction law, or (ii) in a
 12 facility operated by the state, a political subdivision or a public
 13 corporation as defined by section sixty-six of the general construction
 14 law, operated or licensed pursuant to the mental hygiene law, the educa-
 15 tion law, the correction law, or section five hundred four of the execu-
 16 tive law.
 17 b. "Nurse" shall mean a registered professional nurse or a licensed
 18 practical nurse as defined by article one hundred thirty-nine of the
 19 education law who provides direct patient care.
 20 c. "Regularly scheduled work hours", including regularly scheduled
 21 home care visits, pre-scheduled on-call time and the time spent for the
 22 purpose of communicating shift reports regarding patient status neces-
 23 sary to ensure patient safety, shall mean those hours and home care
 24 visits a nurse has agreed to work and is normally scheduled to work
 25 pursuant to the budgeted hours and home care visits allocated to the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD13095-01-5

 A. 8615 2

 1 nurse's position by the health care employer; and if no such allocation
 2 system exists, some other measure generally used by the health care
 3 employer to determine when an employee is minimally supposed to work,
 4 consistent with the collective bargaining agreement, if any. Nothing in
 5 this section shall be construed to permit an employer to use on-call
 6 time as a substitute for mandatory overtime.
 7 § 2. Section 6510-e of the education law, as added by ch