{"id":889,"date":"2026-05-19T12:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=889"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:15:07","slug":"future-of-no-more-24-home-healthcare-bill-uncertain-as-support-within-city-council-continues-to-dwindle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/future-of-no-more-24-home-healthcare-bill-uncertain-as-support-within-city-council-continues-to-dwindle\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of \u2018No More 24\u2019 home healthcare bill uncertain as support within City Council continues to dwindle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two more New York City Council members withdrew their support this week for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7862323&amp;GUID=4C17F6C1-C0DD-4C6C-A619-DC2AFDA0EDDF&amp;Options=ID%7cText%7c&amp;Search=303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intro. 303,<\/a>&nbsp;the \u201cNo More 24\u201d bill that would ban 24-hour workdays for home healthcare workers, bringing the number of co-sponsors who have abandoned the bill up to five since April.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Elsie Encarnacion (D-Bronx) pulled her support for the bill on Monday, while her colleague in the chamber, Ty Hankerson (D-Queens), formally withdrew his support on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hankerson and Encarnacion\u2019s withdrawals from the bill followed Council Members Farah Louis, Shahana Hanif, and Sandy Nurse pulling their support from the bill in recent weeks. Hankerson reportedly told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecity.nyc\/2026\/05\/07\/24-hour-home-care-hanif-menin-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The City<\/a>\u00a0last week that he would pull his support for the bill if it wasn\u2019t altered to include an amendment which allowed some workers to get a waiver allowing them to work 24 hour<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/no-more-24-home-healthcare-bill-uncertain\/?utm_source=sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=politicsny-newsletter&amp;utm_term=PoliticsNY%20Political%20Edge\">here<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two more New York City Council members withdrew their support this week for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7862323&amp;GUID=4C17F6C1-C0DD-4C6C-A619-DC2AFDA0EDDF&amp;Options=ID%7cText%7c&amp;Search=303\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Intro. 303,<\/a>&nbsp;the \u201cNo More 24\u201d bill that would ban 24-hour workdays for home healthcare workers, bringing the number of co-sponsors who have abandoned the bill up to five since April.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Elsie Encarnacion (D-Bronx) pulled her support for the bill on Monday, while her colleague in the chamber, Ty Hankerson (D-Queens), formally withdrew his support on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/future-of-no-more-24-home-healthcare-bill-uncertain-as-support-within-city-council-continues-to-dwindle\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}