Bill Text: NY A08392 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides for the certification by the education department of certified registered nurse anesthetists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-21 - substituted by s5356d [A08392 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A08392-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        8392--C
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     June 15, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  PAULIN,  GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, GIBSON, JACOBS,
         JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  HOOPER,  LATIMER,  LINARES,
         P. RIVERA, SWEENEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on High-
         er  Education  --  reported  and referred to the Committee on Codes --
         committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
         recommitted  to said committee -- reported and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Ways and Means -- reported and referred  to  the  Committee  on
         Rules  --  Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
         as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules -- again reported
         from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended  and
         recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to certification of
         certified registered nurse anesthetists
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 6911
    2  to read as follows:
    3    S 6911. CERTIFICATION OF CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE  ANESTHETISTS.  1.
    4  FOR  ISSUANCE  OF A CERTIFICATE AS A CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHE-
    5  TIST, THE APPLICANT SHALL FULFILL THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS:
    6    (A) APPLICATION: FILE AN APPLICATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT;
    7    (B) LICENSE: BE LICENSED AS A REGISTERED  PROFESSIONAL  NURSE  IN  THE
    8  STATE;
    9    (C)  EDUCATION:  (I)  HAVE  SATISFACTORILY  COMPLETED  AN  EDUCATIONAL
   10  PROGRAM WHICH IS DESIGNED AND CONDUCTED TO PREPARE GRADUATES TO PRACTICE
   11  IN THE SPECIALTY AREA OF NURSE ANESTHESIA;  AND  IS  REGISTERED  BY  THE
   12  DEPARTMENT  OR  IN A PROGRAM ACCREDITED BY A NATIONAL BODY RECOGNIZED BY
   13  THE DEPARTMENT OR DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT TO BE THE EQUIVALENT; AND
   14  (II) SUBMIT EVIDENCE OF CURRENT CERTIFICATION OR  RECERTIFICATION  BY  A
   15  NATIONAL CERTIFYING BODY, RECOGNIZED BY THE DEPARTMENT;
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11445-15-2
       A. 8392--C                          2
    1    (D)  FEES: PAY A FEE TO THE DEPARTMENT OF FIFTY DOLLARS FOR AN INITIAL
    2  CERTIFICATE AUTHORIZING NURSE ANESTHESIA PRACTICE AND A TRIENNIAL REGIS-
    3  TRATION FEE OF  THIRTY  DOLLARS.  AFTER  A  CERTIFIED  REGISTERED  NURSE
    4  ANESTHETIST'S  INITIAL  REGISTRATION,  REGISTRATION  UNDER  THIS SECTION
    5  SHALL  BE  COTERMINOUS WITH THE CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETIST'S
    6  REGISTRATION AS A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE.
    7    2. ONLY A PERSON CERTIFIED UNDER THIS  SECTION  SHALL  USE  THE  TITLE
    8  "CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETIST".
    9    3.  THE  PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY ACT AUTHOR-
   10  IZED BY ANY OTHER LAW, RULE, REGULATION OR CERTIFICATION.
   11    4. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE REGULATIONS SOLELY  TO
   12  IMPLEMENT  THE  CERTIFICATION  PROCESS  SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION.   THE
   13  COMMISSIONER IS NOT AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE REGULATIONS TO  DEFINE  THE
   14  PRACTICE  OF  A CERTIFIED REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETIST. THE COMMISSIONER
   15  IS AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE REGULATIONS  LIMITED  ONLY  TO  THE  CERTIF-
   16  ICATION  PROVISIONS  OF THIS SECTION TO ISSUE A CERTIFICATE.  NOTHING IN
   17  THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO ALTER OR DEFINE THE  SCOPE  OF  PRAC-
   18  TICE.
   19    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
   20  it shall have become a law, except that subdivision 2 of section 6911 of
   21  the education law, as added by section one of this act shall take effect
   22  three years after this act shall have become a law.