AB-8580: Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brian Kavanagh
Reported Referred To Rules on 06/14/2016
You have voted AB-8580: Enacts the "safe staffing for quality care act" to require acute care facilities and nursing homes to implement certain direct-care nurse to patient ratios in all nursing units; sets minimum staffing requirements; requires every such facility to submit a documented staffing plan to the department on an annual basis and upon application for an operating certificate; requires acute care facilities to maintain staffing records during all shifts; authorizes nurses to refuse work assignments if the assignment exceeds the nurse's abilities or if minimum staffing is not present; requires public access to documented staffing plans; imposes civil penalties for violations of such provisions; establishes private right of action for nurses discriminated against for refusing any illegal work assignment..
AB-8626: Relates to creating the "modernized voter registration act of New York"; modernizes voter registration; promotes access to voting for individuals with disabilities; protects the ability of individuals to exercise the right to vote in elections for local and state office and makes an appropriation therefor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Steck
Referred To Election Law on 01/06/2016
You have voted AB-8626: Relates to creating the "modernized voter registration act of New York"; modernizes voter registration; promotes access to voting for individuals with disabilities; protects the ability of individuals to exercise the right to vote in elections for local and state office and makes an appropriation therefor..
AB-8630: Prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aileen Gunther
Signed Chap.331 on 09/27/2016
You have voted AB-8630: Prohibits providers from imposing a fee for termination or early cancellation of certain service contracts in the event a customer has deceased before the end of such contract..
You have voted AB-8634: Relates to requiring that all single use bathroom stalls in state owned or operated buildings be designated as gender neutral..
AB-8638: Establishes the crimes of cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the second degree and cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the first degree when in the presence of a minor child.
Sponsored by: Rep. Linda Rosenthal
Referred To Codes on 01/06/2016
You have voted AB-8638: Establishes the crimes of cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the second degree and cruelty to animals to threaten, intimidate or harass in the first degree when in the presence of a minor child..
AB-8641: Requires the department of social services and not-for-profit corporations to inquire into whether applicants for financial assistance have engaged in military service.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vivian Cook
Signed Chap.407 on 11/04/2016
You have voted AB-8641: Requires the department of social services and not-for-profit corporations to inquire into whether applicants for financial assistance have engaged in military service..
AB-8650: Requires every general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center or outpatient department to provide identification, assessment, and appropriate treatment or referral of persons suspected as human trafficking victims; requires notification to social services where person is under the age of 18.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Steck
Signed Chap.408 on 11/04/2016
You have voted AB-8650: Requires every general hospital, public health center, diagnostic center, treatment center or outpatient department to provide identification, assessment, and appropriate treatment or referral of persons suspected as human trafficking victims; requires notification to social services where person is under the age of 18..
You have voted AB-8700: Relates to a minority and women-owned business enterprise participation goal requirement in order to receive grant or appropriation money..
AB-8707: Relates to the dispensing of contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered; authorizes a licensed physician, certified nurse practitioner, and a licensed midwife to prescribe and order a non-patient specific regimen to a professional nurse and a licensed pharmacist for the dispensing of contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ellen Jaffee
Amend (t) And Recommit To Higher Education on 04/13/2016
You have voted AB-8707: Relates to the dispensing of contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered; authorizes a licensed physician, certified nurse practitioner, and a licensed midwife to prescribe and order a non-patient specific regimen to a professional nurse and a licensed pharmacist for the dispensing of contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered..