Bill Text: NY S00222 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 222 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires 45 hours of mandatory continuing education in a three year period for registered professional nurses; permits exemptions for illness, military duty and nurses who are not engaged in the practice.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-17 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S00222 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S00222-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         222--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recom-
          mitted to the Committee on Higher Education 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, in relation to  mandatory  continuing
          education for nurses
          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  6912
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6912.  Mandatory  continuing  education for registered professional
     4  nurses. 1. (a) Each  licensed  registered  professional  nurse  required
     5  under  this article to register triennially with the department to prac-
     6  tice in the state shall comply with provisions of the mandatory continu-
     7  ing education requirements prescribed in subdivision two of this section
     8  except as set forth in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision. Nurs-
     9  es who do not satisfy the mandatory  continuing  education  requirements
    10  shall  not practice until they have met such requirements, and have been
    11  issued a registration certificate, except  that  a  nurse  may  practice
    12  without  having  met  such  requirements if he or she is issued a condi-
    13  tional registration certificate pursuant to subdivision  three  of  this
    14  section.
    15    (b)  Registered professional nurses shall be exempt from the mandatory
    16  continuing education requirement for the triennial  registration  period
    17  during  which they are first licensed. In accord with the intent of this
    18  section, adjustment to the mandatory  continuing  education  requirement
    19  may  be  granted by the department for reasons of health certified by an
    20  appropriate health care professional, for extended active duty with  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00328-02-6