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