Bill Text: NY S05048 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits certain nurses and patients to exercise the authority under the existing nurse practice act for the provision of care at home.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-05-08 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S05048 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S05048-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5048
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 3, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- 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 provision of nurs-
ing level care under a registered nurse's supervision
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Clause (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section
2 6908 of the education law, as amended by chapter 160 of the laws of
3 2003, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) the providing of care by a person acting in the place of a
5 person exempt under clause (i) of this paragraph, but who does hold
6 himself or herself out as one who accepts employment for performing such
7 care, where nursing services are under the instruction of a licensed
8 REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL nurse, or under the instruction of a patient or
9 family or household member determined by a registered professional nurse
10 to be self-directing and capable of providing such instruction, and any
11 remuneration is provided under section three hundred sixty-five-f of the
12 social services law OR FOR SERVICES UNDER AN ENTITY CERTIFIED, APPROVED
13 OR LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE THIRTY-SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW; or
14 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11309-01-1
