---
type: "Bill"
title: "Requires the provision of guides containing best practices for retaining employees who are informal caregivers"
description: "Requires the provision of guides containing best practices for retaining employees who are informal caregivers; provides that such guide shall be available on the websites of the state office for the aging, the department of labor and the department of state."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "A 3958"
citation: "New York A 3958 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["DINOWITZ"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 14
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-01-30"
last_action: "2018-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/26220186-ea76-4359-9eeb-71614e53598b"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/A3958"
source_hash: "4efa8effd5b40e53d781ae12bfc5de299f521d8191f26276bffc0670afb65ece"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York A 3958 (2017-2018) — Requires the provision of guides containing best practices for retaining employees who are informal caregivers

Requires the provision of guides containing best practices for retaining employees who are informal caregivers; provides that such guide shall be available on the websites of the state office for the aging, the department of labor and the department of state.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **A3958 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=A3958&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **A3958 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/A3958)

## Votes

- Assembly Vote — **128–5** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **60–1** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- DINOWITZ — primary (person)
- GALEF — cosponsor (person)
- SEAWRIGHT — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-30** REFERRED TO AGING `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-13** REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-23** REPORTED
- **2017-05-25** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.512
- **2018-01-03** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.300
- **2018-03-19** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2018-03-19** DELIVERED TO SENATE
- **2018-03-19** REFERRED TO AGING `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-06** SUBSTITUTED FOR S8739
- **2018-06-06** 3RD READING CAL.1622
- **2018-06-06** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2018-06-06** RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-09-20** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2018-10-02** SIGNED CHAP.309 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/26220186-ea76-4359-9eeb-71614e53598b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).