Bill Text: NY S09216 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes the use of approved programs at foreign dental schools to satisfy the experience requirement for licensure as a dentist.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-06 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S09216 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09216-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9216

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        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  requirements  for
          licensure as a dentist

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 6 of section 6604 of the education  law,
     2  subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 613 of the laws of 2022 and subdivi-
     3  sion  6  as  amended  by chapter 669 of the laws of 2022, are amended to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (3) Experience: have experience  satisfactory  to  the  board  and  in
     6  accordance with the commissioner's regulations, provided that:
     7    (a)  such  experience  shall  consist  of satisfactory completion of a
     8  postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program,  of
     9  at  least  one year's duration, in a hospital or dental facility accred-
    10  ited for teaching purposes by a national accrediting  body  approved  by
    11  the  department, provided, further that any such residency program shall
    12  include a formal outcome assessment evaluation of the resident's  compe-
    13  tence to practice dentistry acceptable to the department; or
    14    (b)  notwithstanding  paragraph (a) of this subdivision, for an appli-
    15  cant with a minimum of three years of full-time dental practice  experi-
    16  ence,  or  the  equivalent  thereof,  within  the five years immediately
    17  preceding the applicant's application and in the state or  country  from
    18  which  such  applicant  received  a  license to practice dentistry, such
    19  experience may consist of satisfactory completion of a  minimum  of  one
    20  year  of  either:  (i) experience as a full-time faculty member employed
    21  at  an approved New York state school of dentistry,  or  (ii)  full-time
    22  experience,  or  the  equivalent  thereof,  as a general practice dental
    23  preceptee in a preceptorship program under the supervision of a licensed
    24  dentist in  an area  which  has  been designated   a   federal    dental
    25  health  professions  shortage  area,  provided further that the licensed
    26  dentist who supervises such a preceptee shall be designated the  precep-
    27  tor  dentist, have practiced for at least five years immediately preced-
    28  ing assuming a preceptorship, and have under his or her supervision  not

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13480-06-4
        S. 9216                             2

     1  more   than   one  full-time  preceptee  nor  more  than  two  part-time
     2  preceptees;
     3    (6) Citizenship or immigration status: be a United States citizen or a
     4  noncitizen  lawfully  admitted  for  permanent  residence  in the United
     5  States; provided, however, that the board of regents may grant  a  three
     6  year  waiver  for  a  noncitizen  to  practice in an area which has been
     7  designated a federal dental health  professions  shortage  area,  except
     8  that  the  board  of  regents  may  grant an additional extension not to
     9  exceed six years to a noncitizen to enable him or her to secure citizen-
    10  ship or permanent resident status, provided such status is being active-
    11  ly pursued; and provided further that the board of regents may grant  an
    12  additional  three-year waiver, and at its expiration, an extension for a
    13  period not to exceed six additional years, for the  holder  of  an  H-1b
    14  visa, an O-1 visa, or an equivalent or successor visa thereto;
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.