Bill Text: NY S07002 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that limited permits to practice medicine may be renewed biennially; expands the types of facilities where permitees may practice; authorizes permits to be renewed at the discretion of the department of education; provides that such department shall not deny a limited permit based solely on the previous number of authorizations of such permits issued to the applicant.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-30 - PRINT NUMBER 7002B [S07002 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07002-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7002--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  GOUNARDES, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, SEPULVEDA -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --
          recommitted  to  the  Committee on Higher Education in accordance with
          Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to limited permits to
          practice medicine

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 6525 of the education law,
     2  as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971,  are  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  Limit  of  practice.  A  permittee shall be authorized to practice
     5  medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only in:
     6    (a) a public, voluntary, or proprietary hospital;
     7    (b) a patient care facility operated by or for  any  federally  recog-
     8  nized American Indian tribe, a prison, a school, or a university;
     9    (c) a community health center or federally qualified health center; or
    10    (d) a private office or clinic with at least four practicing supervis-
    11  ing  licensed physicians, operating on a two to one supervision ratio of
    12  two permittees per physician.
    13    3. Duration. A limited permit shall be valid for two years and may  be
    14  renewed  biennially.  [It may be renewed biennially at the discretion of
    15  the department] Permits may be renewed at the discretion of the  depart-
    16  ment,  provided,  however,  that the department shall not deny a limited
    17  permit based solely on the previous number of  authorizations  that  the
    18  department has issued to the applicant.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11276-04-4