Bill Text: NY S06645 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for a limited permit to be obtained to practice as a chiropractor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S06645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06645-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6645

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 allowing for a limited
          permit to be obtained to practice as a chiropractor

          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 6557
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6557. Limited permits. 1.  The  department  shall  issue  a  limited
     4  permit  to  an  applicant who meets all requirements for eligibility and
     5  admission to the chiropractic part  III  clinical  competence  licensing
     6  examination.
     7    2. All practice of chiropractic conducted under a limited permit shall
     8  be  under  the  supervision of a licensed chiropractor or other licensed
     9  medical provider in a public hospital, an incorporated hospital or clin-
    10  ic, a licensed proprietary hospital, a licensed nursing home,  a  public
    11  health  agency,  a  recognized  public or non-public school setting, the
    12  office of a licensed chiropractor, or in the civil service of the  state
    13  or political subdivision thereof.
    14    3.  Limited  permits  shall  be valid for a period of one year and the
    15  department may, for justifiable cause, renew a limited  permit  provided
    16  that  no applicant shall practice under any limited permit for more than
    17  a total of two years.
    18    4. Supervision of a permittee by  a  licensed  chiropractor  shall  be
    19  on-site supervision and not necessarily direct personal supervision.
    20    5. The fee for each limited permit and for each renewal shall be fifty
    21  dollars.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11110-01-1