Bill Text: NY S00116 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires cultural awareness and competence training for all medical professionals as part of their licensing requirements; requires biennial training in the non-discriminatory provision of medical services for physicians, physician assistants, dentists, dental hygienists, registered and licensed practical nurses, podiatrists, and optometrists; authorizes the department of education to develop the training in consultation with the department of health and other experts; provides for documentation and exemption from the requirements; provides for a public education program on minority health; appropriates $100,000 therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - PRINT NUMBER 116A [S00116 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00116-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         116--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. DIAZ, PERKINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance -- recommit-
          ted to the Committee on Finance in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec.
          8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
          to  requiring  cultural  awareness  and  competence  training  for all
          medical professionals; to amend the public health law, in relation  to
          a  public health education program; and making an appropriation there-
          for
          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    §  6505-d.  Course  work  or training in cultural awareness and compe-
     4  tence. 1. Every  physician,  physician  assistant,  dentist,  registered
     5  nurse,  licensed  practical  nurse,  podiatrist,  optometrist and dental
     6  hygienist practicing in the state shall, on or before  July  first,  two
     7  thousand  eighteen  and every two years thereafter, complete course work
     8  or training appropriate to the professional's practice approved  by  the
     9  department  regarding  cultural awareness and competence in the non-dis-
    10  criminatory provision of medical services, in accordance with regulatory
    11  standards promulgated  by  the  department,  in  consultation  with  the
    12  department  of  health. The department shall also consult with organiza-
    13  tions representative of professions, institutions and those with  exper-
    14  tise in cultural awareness and competence with respect to the regulatory
    15  standards promulgated pursuant to this section.
    16    2. Each such professional shall document to the department at the time
    17  of registration commencing with the first registration after July first,
    18  two thousand eighteen that the professional has completed course work or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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