Bill Text: NY A08382 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that limited permits to practice medicine may be renewed biennially; places no limit on the number of such renewals; expands the types of facilities where permitees may practice; removes discretion of the department of education.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A08382 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08382-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8382

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  limited  permits  to
          practice medicine

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 6525 of the education  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  987  of the laws of 1971, are amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. Limit of practice. A permittee  shall  be  authorized  to  practice
     5  medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only in:
     6    (a) a public, voluntary, or proprietary hospital;
     7    (b)  a  patient  care facility operated by or for any federally recog-
     8  nized American Indian tribe,  the  Indian  health  service,  the  United
     9  States veterans' administration, a prison, a school, or a university;
    10    (c) a community health center or federally qualified health center; or
    11    (d)  a private office or clinic where a supervising licensed physician
    12  practices and that is not a pain management clinic.
    13    3. Duration. A limited permit shall be valid for two years and may  be
    14  renewed  biennially.  [It may be renewed biennially at the discretion of
    15  the department.] No limitation shall be placed on the number of renewals
    16  that may be issued.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11276-03-3