Bill Text: NY A07704 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the description of certain services which are not prohibited by statutes governing the practice of nursing, including direct support staff to nurses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A07704 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07704-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7704

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. McMAHON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to  amend  the  education  law,  in  relation  to  expanding  the
          description  of  certain services which are not prohibited by statutes
          governing the practice of nursing

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (v)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 1 of
     2  section 6908 of the education law is renumbered subparagraph (vi) and  a
     3  new subparagraph (v) is added to read as follows:
     4    (v)  tasks  provided  by  direct  support  staff in non-facility based
     5  programs certified, authorized or approved by the office for people with
     6  developmental disabilities, so long as such staff do not hold themselves
     7  out as accepting employment solely for performing such care,  and  where
     8  nursing  services  are  under  the instruction of a service recipient or
     9  family or household member determined by a registered professional nurse
    10  to be capable of providing such  instruction.  In  the  event  that  the
    11  registered  nurse  determines  that  the  service  recipient, family, or
    12  household member is not capable of providing such  instruction,  nursing
    13  tasks  may be performed by direct support staff pursuant to subparagraph
    14  (vi) of this paragraph subject to the requirements set forth therein; or
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11654-02-3