A 8700: Amends the definition of "health care personnel" to define the term "temporary services" as health care services contracted for an initial term of less than twenty-four continuous months; requires a temporary health care services agency to annually submit to the department of health copies of all contracts between the agency and a health care entity to which it assigns or refers health care personnel.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8700 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STIRPE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to temporary services provided by "health care personnel" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 4 and 6 of section 2999-ii of the public 2 health law, as added by section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of the laws of 3 2023, are amended to read as follows: 4 4. "Health care personnel" means nurses, certified nurse aides and 5 licensed or unlicensed direct care staff provided by the temporary 6 health care services agency to provide temporary services in a health 7 care entity. For such health care personnel, "temporary services" shall 8 mean health care services contracted for an initial term of less than 9 twenty-four continuous months. Health care personnel shall not include 10 physicians pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one of the education 11 law. 12 6. "Direct care worker" means an individual who is responsible for 13 patient/resident handling or patient/resident assessment as a regular or 14 incidental part of their services, including any licensed or unlicensed 15 health care worker. Direct care worker shall not include physicians 16 pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one of the education law. 17 § 2. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 3 of section 2999-jj of the public 18 health law, as added by section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of the laws of 19 2023, is amended to read as follows: 20 (d) Shall not require the payment of liquidated damages, employment 21 fees, or other compensation should the health care personnel be hired as 22 a permanent employee of a health care entity in any contract with any 23 health care personnel or health care entity or otherwise, except that a 24 health care entity may agree contractually to reimburse the agency for 25 its reasonable costs in placing the employee. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05348-03-5 
 A. 8700 2 1 § 3. Subdivision 3 of section 2999-kk of the public health law, as 2 added by section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of laws of 2023, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 3. A temporary health care services agency shall annually submit to 5 the department copies of all contracts between the agency and a health 6 care entity to which it assigns or refers health care personnel, and 7 copies of all invoices to health care entities personnel. Executed 8 contracts must be sent to the department within five business days of 9 their effective date and are not subject to disclosure under article six 10 of the public officers law. 11 § 4. The opening paragraph of section 2999-mm of the public health 12 law, as added by section 1 of part X of chapter 57 of laws of 2023, is 13 amended to read as follows: 14 A temporary health care services agency shall report [quarterly] annu- 15 ally to the department a full disclosure of charges and compensation, 16 including a schedule of all hourly bill rates per category of health 17 care personnel, a full description of administrative charges, and a 18 schedule of rates of all compensation per category of health care 19 personnel including, but not limited to: 20 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.