FILED: ALBANY COUNTY CLERK 04/07/2023 05:15 PM
`FILED: ALBANY COUNTY CLERK 04/07/2023 05:15 PM
`NYSCEF DOC. NO. 7
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`FILED: ALBANY COUNTY CLERK 04/07/2023 05:15 PM
`NYSCEF DOC. NO. 7
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`INDEX NO. 903081-23
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`RECEIVED NYSCEF: 04/07/2023
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`No. 4.3
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`E X E C H m E O E a E E
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`Continuing the Declaration of a Statewide Disaster Emergency Due to Healthcare Staffing Shortages in the State of
`New York
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`WHEREAS,
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`there are staffing shortages in hospital and other healthcare facilities and they are expected continue;
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`severe understaffing in hospitals and other healthcare facilities is expected to continue to affect the ability to
`WHEREAS,
`provide critical care and to adequately serve vulnerable populations;
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`WHEREAS,
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`there is an immediate and critical need to supplement staffing to assurehealthcare facilities can provide care;
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`I, Kathy Hochul, Governor of the State of New York, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
`NOW, THEREFORE,
`Constitution of the State of New York and Section 28 of Article 2-B of the Executive Law, do hereby extend the state disaster
`emergency as set forth in Executive Order 4, as continued in Executive Order 4.2, and continue the terms, conditions, and suspensions
`contained in Executive Orders 4, 4.1, and 4.2 until January 25, 2022.
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`by virtue of the authority vested in me by Section 29-a of Article 2-B of the Executive Law to temporarily
`IN ADDITION,
`law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation, or parts thereof, of any agency during a State disaster
`suspend or modify any statute, local
`emergency, if compliance with such statute, local
`law, ordinance, order, rule, or regulation would prevent, hinder, or delay action
`necessary to cope with the disaster emergency or if necessary to assist or aid in coping with such disaster, I hereby temporarily suspend
`for the period from the date of this Executive Order through January 25, 2022 the following:
`or modify,
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`Section 2824(7)(c) of the Public Health Law to the extent necessary to permit healthcare facilities to continue to employ surgical
`technologists who failed to meet the minimum standards for surgical technologists within two years of the start of employment or
`contracting for the performance of surgical technology.
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`G I V E N under my hand and the Privy Seal of the State in the City of
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`Albany this twenty-sixth day of December in the year two
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`thousand twenty-one.
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`BY THE G
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`Secretary to th Governor
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