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*NOTE: PEF leaders have sent information to labor-management chairs, council leaders and Executive Board members, met with the Statewide PAC and the Executive Council, and have determined PEF will oppose the following issues with the two noted exceptions:


SFY2014-15BUDGET ISSUE


Authorizes a pilot programthat allows up to five, for- profit corporations to own and operate hospitals in NYS.


Expands exemptions in the Nurse PractitionerAct to affect direct-care staff in non-certified settings.


*Nurse PractitionersModernizationAct: PEF is getting input from members who are nurse practitioners before deciding if the union will oppose this proposal.


Expands shifting to BOCES the delivery of educational services at OCFS facilities.


Extends the timeframe for OCFS facility closures from 9/1/14 to 4/30/15.


examination for up to five years. *PEF is gathering information from members on additional proposals related to information technology Civil Service testing before


Allows the Office of Information Technology Services (OITS) up to 300 IT temporary appointments without


deciding if PEF will also oppose those proposals.


Office of Parks, Recreation and Historical Preservation, and the Thruway and DormitoryAuthorities, making Design/Build a permanent engineering arrangement.


Extends Design/Build at Departments of Transportation and Environmental Conservation,


Eliminates reimbursement of SupplementalMedicare Part B premiums for state retirees.


Makes statutory changes to continue the implementation of theMedicaid Redesign Team.


OPWDD. Lack of transparency regarding how services will be provided to the public and where themoney will be shifted.


Governor’s post-2013-14 budget actions that privatize, reduce or eliminate services in DOCCS, OMH and


It allows consultants, rather than professional public employees, to design and inspect projects which will cost taxpayers more money and will diminish accountability for public projects.


The cost to state retirees may be up to $230 per month in 2014. This cost is projected to rise in future years.


This gives the state the ability to replace public employees with contractors to conduct Social Services fair hearings.


This circumvents the budget process that allows for legislative deliberation, including the opportunity for the public to give input. Loss of services, privatizing responsibility to provide public services, and overwhelmingmunicipalities by shifting financial and programmatic responsibility.


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It threatens the viability of the SUNYpublic hospitals and sets the stage for privatization of state hospitals.


It allows unlicensed direct-care staff to perform tasks that should be done by nursing professionals, e.g., passing out medications.


Experienced nurse practitioners could forego written collaboration agreements with doctors; could supervise new nurse practitioners.


Would allow BOCES to provide any instruction and program services that it provides to school districts to youth in OCFS Facilities; thereby, replacing OCFS professional educators.


OCFS has failed with the Close-to-Home Initiative that transferred juvenile offenders that were in non-secure state facilities to NYC. This extension would transfer additional juvenile offenders who come fromlimited-secure facilities and who need a higher level of security to a failed program model (ACS).


This amendment circumvents Civil Service law, and it goes against the intent of consolidating all of the information technology staff in one agency.


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