Bill Text: NY A04552 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adopts the interstate nurse licensure compact (Part A); adopts the advanced practice registered nurse compact (Part B).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-03-24 - enacting clause stricken [A04552 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04552-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4552

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 16, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to adopting the inter-
          state nurse licensure compact (Part A); and  to  amend  the  education
          law,  in  relation  to adopting the advanced practice registered nurse
          compact (Part B)

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. This act enacts into law components of legislation relating
     2  to  enacting  the  interstate  nurse  licensure compact and the advanced
     3  practice registered nurse compact. Each component  is  wholly  contained
     4  within  a  Part  identified as Parts A through B. The effective date for
     5  each particular provision contained within such Part is set forth in the
     6  last section of such Part. Any provision in any section contained within
     7  a Part, including the effective date of the Part, which makes  reference
     8  to a section "of this act", when used in connection with that particular
     9  component,  shall  be  deemed  to  mean  and  refer to the corresponding
    10  section of the Part in which it is found. Section three of this act sets
    11  forth the general effective date of this act.

    12                                   PART A

    13    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  6912
    14  to read as follows:
    15    § 6912. Interstate nurse licensure compact. Notwithstanding any law to
    16  the contrary, the interstate nurse licensure compact, which was approved
    17  by  a  special delegate assembly of the national council of state boards
    18  of nursing on May fourth, two thousand fifteen, is hereby  enacted  into
    19  law and entered into with all jurisdictions legally joining therein.
    20    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    21  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04789-01-3
        A. 4552                             2

     1  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
     2  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
     3  completed on or before such effective date.

     4                                   PART B

     5    Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 6913
     6  to read as follows:
     7    § 6913. Advanced practice registered nurse compact.    Notwithstanding
     8  any law to the contrary, the advanced practice registered nurse compact,
     9  which  was  adopted  by  the national council of state boards of nursing
    10  delegate assembly on August twelfth,  two  thousand  twenty,  is  hereby
    11  enacted into law and entered into with all jurisdictions legally joining
    12  therein.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
    15  and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
    16  of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
    17  completed on or before such effective date.
    18    § 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
    19  sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
    20  competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
    21  impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
    22  its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
    23  or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
    24  ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
    25  the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
    26  invalid provisions had not been included herein.
    27    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    28  the applicable effective date of Parts A through B of this act shall  be
    29  as specifically set forth in the last section of such Parts.