Bill Text: NY A07304 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the license requirements for the practice of respiratory therapy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A07304 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07304-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7304 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 22, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the license require- ments for the practice of respiratory therapy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 8504 of the education law, as 2 added by chapter 817 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows: 3 2. Education: have received an education, including completion of an 4 approved [associate] bachelor degree program in respiratory therapy or 5 in a program determined by the department to be the equivalent; 6 § 2. Section 8507 of the education law is amended by adding a new 7 closing paragraph to read as follows: 8 Subdivision two of section eighty-five hundred four of this article as 9 amended by the chapter of the laws of two thousand eighteen that added 10 this paragraph shall not apply to any person licensed as a respiratory 11 therapist on the effective date of the chapter of the laws of two thou- 12 sand eighteen that added this paragraph. 13 § 3. Section 8513 of the education law, as added by chapter 817 of the 14 laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows: 15 § 8513. Special provisions. 1. A person shall be licensed without 16 examination provided that, within one year of the effective date of this 17 article, the individual: 18 [1.](a) files an application and pays the appropriate fees to the 19 department; and 20 [2. (a)](b)(1) is certified by a national certifying or accrediting 21 board for respiratory therapy technicians acceptable to the department, 22 or 23 [(b)](2) has practiced as a respiratory therapy technician in a hospi- 24 tal, as defined in article twenty-eight of the public health law, in the 25 state for not less than two years within the last five years, or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00208-01-9A. 7304 2 1 [(c)](3) has met the educational standards of a hospital, as defined 2 in article twenty-eight of the public health law, or, in the case of a 3 hospital operated by a public benefit corporation, has met the educa- 4 tional standards of such corporation, and has practiced as a respiratory 5 therapy technician for at least one year in such hospital. 6 2. The department shall not accept new applications for an initial 7 license as a respiratory therapy technician, provided however that 8 licenses issued prior to that date shall be eligible for renewal subject 9 to the provisions of this section. 10 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that sections 11 one and two of this act shall take effect on the first of September in 12 the fifth year next succeeding the year in which it shall have become a 13 law and shall only apply to the issuance of initial licenses.
