BILL · 2019–20 SESSION

SB 5373: Health care employees

Concerning meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees.

Summary

Provides that certain hospital employees must be allowed to take uninterrupted meal and rest periods that are not intermittent, except under limited circumstances.
Amends the prohibition on mandatory overtime in health care facilities by including additional employees, and prohibiting the employer from using prescheduled on-call time.
Specifies that violations of the meal, rest break, and overtime provisions require employees to be compensated at double their rate of pay for an entire shift.
Establishes a schedule of administrative penalties and authorizes administrative investigations for employer violations.
Authorizes employees to bring a private right of action.

From the Senate Bill Report (Orig.) (SB 5373), written by the Legislature's nonpartisan staff. Read the full report ↗

Did not pass Did not pass · died in committee

AN ACT Relating to meal and rest breaks and mandatory overtime for certain health care employees;

No recorded floor votes. This measure never reached a floor vote.

Bill numbers restart every two years, so the same number is a different bill in each session.

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