Bill Text: NY A08249 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to course work or training in early recognition of and intervention for eating disorders.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-24 - print number 8249b [A08249 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A08249-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8249--B
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 11, 2009
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  P. RIVERA  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High-
         er Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to  said  committee  -- again reported from said committee with amend-
         ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
         to course work or training in early recognition  of  and  intervention
         for eating disorders
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6505-d
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 6505-D. COURSE WORK OR TRAINING IN EARLY RECOGNITION OF  AND  INTER-
    4  VENTION  FOR  EATING  DISORDERS.  EVERY  PHYSICIAN, PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT,
    5  REGISTERED NURSE, LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE, PSYCHIATRIST,  PSYCHOLOGIST,
    6  LICENSED MASTER SOCIAL WORKER, LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER, LICENSED
    7  MENTAL  HEALTH  COUNSELOR,  LICENSED MARRIAGE THERAPIST, LICENSED FAMILY
    8  THERAPIST, LICENSED DENTIST, LICENSED NUTRITIONIST AND LICENSED  PSYCHO-
    9  ANALYST  PRACTICING  IN  THE  STATE  SHALL, ON OR BEFORE JULY FIRST, TWO
   10  THOUSAND ELEVEN, COMPLETE  COURSE  WORK  OR  TRAINING  APPROVED  BY  THE
   11  DEPARTMENT  REGARDING  THE  EARLY  RECOGNITION  OF  AND INTERVENTION FOR
   12  EATING DISORDERS, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF  HEALTH,  WHICH
   13  SHALL  BE  CONSISTENT, AS FAR AS APPROPRIATE, WITH ANY STANDARDS OR BEST
   14  PRACTICES ESTABLISHED BY  THE  COMPREHENSIVE  CARE  CENTERS  FOR  EATING
   15  DISORDERS  ESTABLISHED  PURSUANT TO ARTICLE TWENTY-SEVEN-J OF THE PUBLIC
   16  HEALTH LAW.  EACH SUCH PROFESSIONAL SHALL ATTEST TO  THE  DEPARTMENT  AT
   17  THE  TIME  OF  REGISTRATION COMMENCING WITH THE FIRST REGISTRATION AFTER
   18  JULY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND ELEVEN  THAT  THE  PROFESSIONAL  HAS  COMPLETED
   19  COURSE  WORK  OR  TRAINING  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH THIS SECTION, PROVIDED,
   20  HOWEVER THAT A PROFESSIONAL SUBJECT TO THE PROVISIONS OF  PARAGRAPH  (F)
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11607-06-0
       A. 8249--B                          2
    1  OF  SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED FIVE-K OF THE PUBLIC
    2  HEALTH LAW SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE SUCH DOCUMENTATION OR ATTES-
    3  TATION AS PRESCRIBED BY THIS SECTION. THE ONE HOUR OF COURSE WORK  SHALL
    4  CONSIST  OF,  BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED  TO, INFORMATION REGARDING PHYSICAL,
    5  EMOTIONAL, AND BEHAVIORAL INDICATORS OF EATING DISORDERS.   THE  DEPART-
    6  MENT  SHALL  PROVIDE  AN  EXEMPTION  FROM THIS REQUIREMENT TO ANYONE WHO
    7  REQUESTS SUCH AN EXEMPTION AND WHO CLEARLY DEMONSTRATES TO  THE  DEPART-
    8  MENT'S  SATISFACTION  THAT  (I) THERE WOULD BE NO NEED FOR HIM OR HER TO
    9  COMPLETE SUCH COURSE WORK OR TRAINING BECAUSE OF THE NATURE  OF  HIS  OR
   10  HER  PRACTICE, (II) THAT HE OR SHE HAS COMPLETED COURSE WORK OR TRAINING
   11  DEEMED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO BE EQUIVALENT TO THE COURSE WORK OR TRAINING
   12  APPROVED BY THE DEPARTMENT PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION OR (III) SOME  OTHER
   13  GOOD CAUSE PREVENTS THEM FROM COMPLETING SUCH COURSE WORK OR TRAINING.
   14    S  2.    Subdivision  1  of section 2805-k of the public health law is
   15  amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   16    (H) DOCUMENTATION THAT THE PHYSICIAN HAS COMPLETED THE COURSE WORK  OR
   17  TRAINING  AS MANDATED BY SECTION SIX THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FIVE-D OF THE
   18  EDUCATION LAW. A HOSPITAL OR FACILITY SHALL NOT GRANT OR  RENEW  PROFES-
   19  SIONAL  PRIVILEGES  OR  ASSOCIATION TO A PHYSICIAN WHO HAS NOT COMPLETED
   20  SUCH COURSE WORK OR TRAINING.
   21    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
   22  ing  the  date  on  which  it shall have become a law; provided that the
   23  commissioner of education is  immediately  authorized  and  directed  to
   24  promulgate,  amend  and/or repeal any rules and regulations necessary to
   25  implement the provisions of this act on such effective date.