Bill Text: NY S03852 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3852 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits a medical doctor from stating that he or she is board certified or eligible for certification by a private or public board or parent association unless the board or association is an American Board of Medical Specialities member board, or a member board of the American Osteopathic Association, or is a board or association with equivalent requirements approved by that physician and surgeon's licensing board, or is a board or association with an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education approved postgraduate training program that provides complete training in that specialty or subspecialty.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S03852 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S03852-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         3852
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     March 7, 2011
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       Introduced by Sens. OPPENHEIMER, DIAZ, KRUEGER -- 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 statements of special-
         ty by a physician
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  6527 of the education law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
    3    9. A LICENSED PHYSICIAN MAY INCLUDE A STATEMENT THAT HE OR SHE  LIMITS
    4  HIS OR HER PRACTICE TO SPECIFIC FIELDS, BUT MAY ONLY INCLUDE A STATEMENT
    5  THAT  HE  OR SHE IS CERTIFIED OR ELIGIBLE FOR CERTIFICATION BY A PRIVATE
    6  OR PUBLIC BOARD OR PARENT ASSOCIATION IF THAT BOARD OR ASSOCIATION IS AN
    7  AMERICAN BOARD OF MEDICAL SPECIALTIES MEMBER BOARD OR A MEMBER BOARD  OF
    8  THE AMERICAN OSTEOPATHIC ASSOCIATION, A BOARD OR ASSOCIATION WITH EQUIV-
    9  ALENT  REQUIREMENTS  APPROVED  BY THAT PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON'S LICENSING
   10  BOARD, OR A BOARD OR ASSOCIATION WITH AN ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR GRAD-
   11  UATE MEDICAL  EDUCATION  APPROVED  POSTGRADUATE  TRAINING  PROGRAM  THAT
   12  PROVIDES COMPLETE TRAINING IN THAT SPECIALTY OR SUBSPECIALTY.
   13    S  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
   14  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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