Bill Text: NY A06696 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Updates the educational requirements for the practice of physical therapy; requires individuals to have received a doctoral degree or an education determined equivalent in physical therapy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-17 - substituted by s6220b [A06696 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06696-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6696

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the practice of  phys-
          ical therapy

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision b of section 6734  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  410  of  the  laws  of 2011, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    b. Education: have received an education, including [completion of]  a
     5  [master's] doctoral degree [or higher] in physical therapy or determined
     6  to be equivalent, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
     7    §  2.  Section  6743  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     8  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     9    3. Amendments to the  educational  requirement  in  subdivision  b  of
    10  section  sixty-seven hundred thirty-four of this article made by a chap-
    11  ter of the laws of two thousand twenty-three shall not be  construed  to
    12  affect the validity of existing licenses and permits.
    13    §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
    14  law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment,  and/or  repeal  of
    15  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on
    16  its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or  before
    17  such effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10484-05-3