2017 New York Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 28 - Hospitals
2807-G - Health Workforce Retraining Program.

  2807-g.  Health  workforce  retraining program. 1. The commissioner
  shall, to the extent of funds available  therefor  pursuant  to  section
  twenty-eight  hundred  seven-l  of this article, make grants to eligible
  organizations to support the training  and  retraining  of  health  care
  employees  to  address  changes  in  the  health workforce. Requests for
  proposals shall be issued by the commissioner within sixty days  of  the
  effective  date  of  this  section in the first year after it shall take
  effect, and by the first day of  March  in  each  succeeding  year.  All
  proposals  shall  be due not later than sixty days after the issuance of
  the request for proposals, and all grant awards shall be made not  later
  than  one  hundred twenty days after the date on which the proposals are
  due.
2. Grants  shall  be  made  on  a  competitive  basis  by  region,  in
  accordance  with  the amount raised in the region with preference within
  regions given to areas and eligible organizations that have  experienced
  or  are  likely  to experience job loss because of changes in the health
  care system. If, at the conclusion of the regional competitive  contract
  award  process,  there  are  excess  funds available within any regional
  allocation, such funds shall be redistributed to regions where there  is
  a  shortage  of funds available for programs which otherwise qualify for
  funding pursuant to this section.
3. Eligible organizations shall include health worker unions,  general
  hospitals,  long-term  care  facilities,  other  health care facilities,
  health care facilities trade associations, labor-management  committees,
  joint  labor-management  training  funds  established  pursuant  to  the
  provisions  of   the   Federal   Taft-Hartley   Act,   and   educational
  institutions.
4.  Eligible programs shall include programs which provide one or more
  of the following services in connection with training an eligible worker
  to: (i) obtain a new position, (ii) continue to meet the requirements of
  an existing position, or (iii) otherwise meet the  requirements  of  the
  changing  health  care  industry:  (a)  assessments  to  help  determine
  training needs; (b) remediation, including preparation  in  English  for
  speakers  or writers of other languages, instruction in basic reading or
  mathematics, or completion of requirements  for  a  general  equivalency
  diploma  (GED); (c) basic skills development; (d) reorientation; and (e)
  skills and educational enhancement, including,  where  appropriate,  the
  provision  of college level or college degree course work. To the extent
  that an eligible program is providing services to train eligible workers
  to obtain a new position or to continue to meet the requirements  of  an
  existing  position  only,  reimbursement  shall  also be available to an
  eligible  organization  for  the  actual  cost  of  any  employment   or
  employment-related  expenses  incurred  by  the eligible organization in
  fulfilling the duties and responsibilities of such employees while  they
  are engaged in such training programs.