Bill Text: NY A09928 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Permits a person licensed to practice acupuncture in another state to practice acupuncture in New York in certain cases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-12-17 - approval memo.21 [A09928 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09928-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9928
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 29, 2014
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Glick) --
         read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to licensing to  practice
         acupuncture
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 8216 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
    2  new subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    3    (8)  ANY  PERSON  WHO  IS  LICENSED TO PRACTICE ACUPUNCTURE IN ANOTHER
    4  STATE OR COUNTRY MAY  PRACTICE  ACUPUNCTURE  IN  THIS  STATE  WITHOUT  A
    5  LICENSE SOLELY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONDUCTING CLINICAL TRAINING, PRACTICE
    6  DEMONSTRATIONS  OR  CLINICAL  RESEARCH  THAT  IS  WITHIN THE PRACTICE OF
    7  ACUPUNCTURE IN CONNECTION WITH A PROGRAM OF  BASIC  CLINICAL  EDUCATION,
    8  GRADUATE  EDUCATION, OR POST-GRADUATE EDUCATION IN AN APPROVED SCHOOL OF
    9  ACUPUNCTURE OR IN ITS AFFILIATED CLINICAL FACILITY OR HEALTH CARE  AGEN-
   10  CY,  OR  BEFORE  A GROUP OF LICENSED ACUPUNCTURISTS WHO ARE MEMBERS OF A
   11  PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY.
   12    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15431-02-4
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