S 5540: Extends wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5540 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 24, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to extending wage parity for home care workers in upstate New York The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3614-c of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows: 3 (c) The minimum rate of home care aide compensation in all counties 4 other than Bronx, Queens, Kings, New York, Richmond, Nassau, Suffolk and 5 Westchester shall be: 6 For all periods on or after October first, two thousand twenty-five, 7 the cash portion of the minimum rate of home care aide total compen- 8 sation shall be the minimum rate for the applicable region, as defined 9 in section thirty-six hundred fourteen-f of this article plus an addi- 10 tional three dollars and twenty-two cents per hour. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08743-01-5