Bill Text: NY S06220 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Updates the educational requirements for the practice of physical therapy; requires individuals to have received a doctoral degree or an education determined equivalent in physical therapy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - SIGNED CHAP.594 [S06220 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6220

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the practice of  phys-
          ical therapy

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision b of section 6734  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  410  of  the  laws  of 2011, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    b. Education: have received an education, including  completion  of  a
     5  [master's]  doctorate  degree  [or higher] in physical therapy or deter-
     6  mined to be equivalent, in  accordance  with  the  commissioner's  regu-
     7  lations;
     8    §  2.  Section  6743  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     9  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    10    3. Amendments to the  educational  requirement  in  subdivision  b  of
    11  section  sixty-seven hundred thirty-four of this article made by a chap-
    12  ter of the laws of two thousand twenty-three shall not be  construed  to
    13  affect the validity of existing licenses and permits.
    14    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    15  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment,  and/or  repeal  of
    16  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
    17  its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or  before
    18  such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10484-01-3