Bill Text: NY S06717 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Allows for at least one-third of required clinical training and competency for licensing as a registered professional nurse, licensed practical nurse, and nurse practitioner to be completed through simulation experience.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-24 - referred to higher education [S06717 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S06717-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6717--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 13, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sens. STAVISKY, GALLIVAN, HARCKHAM, KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Educa- tion 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 allowing for a certain amount of required clinical training and competency for licensing as a registered professional nurse, licensed practical nurse, and nurse practitioner to be completed through simulation experience The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6905 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 380 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 (2) Education: have received an education, and a diploma or degree in 5 professional nursing, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations, 6 and in order to continue to maintain registration as a registered 7 professional nurse in New York state, have attained a baccalaureate 8 degree or higher in nursing within ten years of initial licensure in 9 accordance with the commissioner's regulations, and have participated in 10 supervised clinical training, clinical education, or the equivalent, as 11 determined by the department. The commissioner shall permit one-third of 12 such clinical training to be obtained through simulation experience 13 acceptable to the department and pursuant to regulation. Nothing in this 14 section shall prohibit the department from allowing an education program 15 to provide greater than one-third of such training through simulation 16 experience upon application by that institution in such form as the 17 department shall require. The department, in its discretion, may issue a 18 conditional registration to a licensee who fails to complete the bacca- 19 laureate degree but who agrees to meet the additional requirement within EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11455-02-2S. 6717--A 2 1 one year. The fee for such a conditional registration shall be the same 2 as, and in addition to, the fee for the triennial registration. The 3 duration of such conditional registration shall be for one year and may 4 be extended, with the payment of a fee, for no more than one additional 5 year, unless the applicant can show good cause for non-compliance 6 acceptable to the department. The department, in its discretion, may 7 issue a temporary educational exemption to a licensee who is unable to 8 complete the baccalaureate degree due to a lack of access to educational 9 programs. Licensees seeking a temporary educational exemption shall 10 provide evidence of applying on at least two occasions to a baccalau- 11 reate degree program or programs and subsequently being denied access to 12 such program or programs on at least two occasions due to there being a 13 limited number of seats. Such denials shall also be corroborated by the 14 higher education institution or institutions that the licensee applied 15 to. Temporary educational exemptions issued pursuant to this subdivision 16 shall be for a single two year period. Licensees shall only be eligible 17 for either a conditional registration or a temporary educational 18 exemption. The fee for such a temporary educational exemption shall be 19 the same as, and in addition to, the fee for the triennial registration. 20 Any licensee who is notified of the denial of a registration for failure 21 to complete the additional educational requirements and who practices as 22 a registered professional nurse without such registration may be subject 23 to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to section sixty-five hundred ten 24 of this title; 25 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 6906 of the education law, as amended by 26 chapter 330 of the laws of 1981, is amended to read as follows: 27 (2) Education: have received an education including completion of high 28 school or its equivalent, and have completed a program in practical 29 nursing, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations, or 30 completion of equivalent study satisfactory to the department in a 31 program conducted by the armed forces of the United States or in an 32 approved program in professional nursing, and have participated in 33 supervised clinical training, clinical education, or the equivalent, as 34 determined by the department. The commissioner shall permit one-third of 35 such clinical training to be obtained through simulation experience 36 acceptable to the department and pursuant to regulation. Nothing in this 37 section shall prohibit the department from allowing an institution of 38 post-secondary education to provide greater than one-third of such 39 training through simulation experience upon application by that institu- 40 tion in such form as the department shall require; 41 § 3. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section 42 6910 of the education law, as added by chapter 257 of the laws of 1988, 43 is amended to read as follows: 44 (i) have satisfactorily completed educational preparation for 45 provision of these services in a program registered by the department or 46 in a program determined by the department to be the equivalent, and have 47 participated in supervised clinical training, clinical education, or the 48 equivalent, as determined by the department. The commissioner shall 49 permit one-third of such clinical training to be obtained through simu- 50 lation experience acceptable to the department and pursuant to regu- 51 lation. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the department from 52 allowing an institution of post-secondary education to provide greater 53 than one-third of such training through simulation experience upon 54 application by that institution in such form as the department shall 55 require. Provided however nothing in this section shall reduce theS. 6717--A 3 1 in-person or direct care requirements established by programmatic accre- 2 ditors and certifying bodies; or 3 § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 4 it shall have become a law.
