Bill Text: NY A07894 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7894 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Permits certain nurses and patients to exercise the authority under the existing nurse practice act for the provision of care at home.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to higher education [A07894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07894-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7894
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 20, 2011
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       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, LIFTON, BURLING, PALMESANO -- read once
         and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the provision of nurs-
         ing level care under a registered nurse's supervision
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Clause  (iii)  of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section
    2  6908 of the education law, as amended by chapter  160  of  the  laws  of
    3  2003, is amended to read as follows:
    4    (iii)  the  providing  of  care  by  a person acting in the place of a
    5  person exempt under clause (i) of this  paragraph,  but  who  does  hold
    6  himself or herself out as one who accepts employment for performing such
    7  care,  where  nursing  services  are under the instruction of a licensed
    8  REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL nurse, or under the instruction of a patient  or
    9  family or household member determined by a registered professional nurse
   10  to  be self-directing and capable of providing such instruction, and any
   11  remuneration is provided under section three hundred sixty-five-f of the
   12  social services law OR FOR SERVICES UNDER AN ENTITY CERTIFIED,  APPROVED
   13  OR LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE THIRTY-SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW; or
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11309-01-1