Bill Text: NY A05051 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that an applicant with a bachelor's degree or higher in engineering technology and an applicant with a bachelor's degree or higher in engineering shall have the same number of education and experience credit requirements, shall have the same eligibility for an identification card as "an engineer in training", as well as examination and examination eligibility requirements.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A05051 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05051-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5051

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  JEAN-PIERRE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  an  accredited  engi-
          neering technology degree

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph 2 of subdivision 1 of section 7206 of the  educa-
     2  tion  law,  as amended by chapter 465 of the laws of 2021, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (2) Education: have received an education, including a  bachelor's  or
     5  higher degree based on a program in engineering, an accredited engineer-
     6  ing technology degree, or the substantial equivalent, in accordance with
     7  the commissioner's regulations;
     8    §  2.  Section  7206  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     9  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    10    5. For the purposes of this section, an applicant  with  a  bachelor's
    11  degree or higher in engineering technology and an applicant with a bach-
    12  elor's  degree  or  higher  in engineering shall have the same number of
    13  education and experience credit requirements, shall have the same eligi-
    14  bility for an identification card as an "engineer in training", as  well
    15  as  examination  and examination eligibility requirements, in accordance
    16  with the commissioner's regulations.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law and shall apply to applications for licensure
    19  as a professional engineer received on or  after  such  effective  date.
    20  Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
    21  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
    22  tive  date  are  authorized  to  be made and completed on or before such
    23  effective date.

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