Bill Text: NY S03330 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows certified dietitians and nutritionists to order therapeutic diets.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-02-17 - referred to higher education [S03330 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03330-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3330

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, GAUGHRAN, JACKSON, MAY, THOMAS -- read twice
          and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to the certification of
          dietitians and nutritionists

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  8001 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. Notwithstanding any other provision  of  law  to  the  contrary,  a
     4  certified  dietitian  or  certified  nutritionist  may prescribe, order,
     5  write, review, evaluate, monitor and manage therapeutic diets, including
     6  enteral and parenteral nutrition, in a  hospital,  including  diagnostic
     7  center, treatment center, or hospital-based outpatient department, resi-
     8  dential  health  care  facility or nursing home or any other facility as
     9  defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of  the  public  health  law
    10  when  competency is determined by the medical director or governing body
    11  of such facility.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the  addition  and/or
    14  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    15  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    16  on or before such effective date.



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