Bill Text: NY A09967 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Removes the requirement that postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program experience required for licensure as a dentist needs to be clinically-based.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-11-21 - signed chap.613 [A09967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A09967-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9967

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2022
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. GLICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  dental  residencies
          qualified for licensure

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 6604  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  726  of  the  laws  of 2004, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (3) Experience: have experience  satisfactory  to  the  board  and  in
     5  accordance with the commissioner's regulations, provided that such expe-
     6  rience  shall consist of satisfactory completion of a [clinically-based]
     7  postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program,  of
     8  at  least  one year's duration, in a hospital or dental facility accred-
     9  ited for teaching purposes by a national accrediting  body  approved  by
    10  the  department, provided, further that any such residency program shall
    11  include a formal outcome assessment evaluation of the resident's  compe-
    12  tence to practice dentistry acceptable to the department;
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15406-01-2