Bill Text: NY S07002 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that limited permits to practice medicine may be renewed biennially; expands the types of facilities where permitees may practice; authorizes permits to be renewed at the discretion of the department of education; provides that such department shall not deny a limited permit based solely on the previous number of authorizations of such permits issued to the applicant.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-30 - PRINT NUMBER 7002B [S07002 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07002-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7002--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 16, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education 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 limited permits to practice medicine The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 6525 of the education law, 2 as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, are amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. Limit of practice. A permittee shall be authorized to practice 5 medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only in: 6 (a) a public, voluntary, or proprietary hospital; 7 (b) a patient care facility operated by or for any federally recog- 8 nized American Indian tribe, a prison, a school, or a university; 9 (c) a community health center or federally qualified health center; or 10 (d) a private office or clinic with at least four practicing supervis- 11 ing licensed physicians, operating on a two to one supervision ratio of 12 two permittees per physician. 13 3. Duration. A limited permit shall be valid for two years and may be 14 renewed biennially. [It may be renewed biennially at the discretion of15the department] Permits may be renewed at the discretion of the depart- 16 ment, provided, however, that the department shall not deny a limited 17 permit based solely on the previous number of authorizations that the 18 department has issued to the applicant. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11276-04-4