STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9867 IN ASSEMBLY April 24, 2024 ___________ 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 including digital health care service platforms in the definition of temporary health care services agency The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 2999-ii of the public health law, 2 as added by part X of section 1 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2023, is 3 amended and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows: 4 8. "Temporary health care services agency" or "agency" means a person, 5 firm, corporation, partnership, association or other entity in the busi- 6 ness of providing or procuring [temporary employment] services of health 7 care personnel for health care entities, or of connecting health care 8 personnel to health care entities, including via a platform or applica- 9 tion on the internet. Temporary health care services agency shall 10 include a nurses' registry licensed under article eleven of the general 11 business law and entities that utilize apps or other technology-based 12 solutions to provide or procure temporary employment of health care 13 personnel in health care entities. Temporary health care services agency 14 shall not include: (a) an individual who only engages in providing the 15 individual's own services on a temporary basis to health care entities; 16 or (b) a home care agency licensed under article thirty-six of this 17 chapter. 18 9. "Assign" includes the connection of health care personnel to 19 services at a health care entity. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD15144-01-4