Bill Text: NY S08707 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Permits certain licensed athletic trainers who are licensed to practice in another state or territory to provide athletic training services to athletes and team personnel at a discrete sanctioned team sporting event or performance in this state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - ADVANCED TO THIRD READING [S08707 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08707-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8707

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 4, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law,  in  relation  to  permitting certain
          licensed athletic  trainers to practice in New York state if they  are
          licensed to practice in another state or territory

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

     1    Section 1. Section 8356 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  (a)  Any  athletic trainer who is licensed and in good standing in
     4  another state or territory, and who has a written agreement  to  provide
     5  athletic  training  services  to athletes and team personnel of a United
     6  States sports team recognized by the United States Olympic and  Paralym-
     7  pic  Committees  or  an out-of-state secondary school, an institution of
     8  postsecondary education, a professional or amateur athletic organization
     9  sports team, or a performing arts troupe, may provide athletic  training
    10  services  to  such  athletes and team personnel at a discrete sanctioned
    11  team sporting event or performance in  this  state  as  defined  by  the
    12  commissioner in regulations, provided such services are provided only to
    13  such  athletes and team personnel at the discrete sanctioned team sport-
    14  ing event or performance. Any such athletic training services  shall  be
    15  provided  only  five  days before through three days after each discrete
    16  sanctioned team sporting event or traveling performance.
    17    (b) Any person practicing as an athletic trainer in this state  pursu-
    18  ant  to  this  subdivision  shall be subject to the personal and subject
    19  matter jurisdiction and disciplinary and  regulatory  authority  of  the
    20  board  of  regents as if he or she is a licensee and as if the exemption
    21  pursuant to this subdivision is a license. Such individual shall  comply
    22  with applicable provisions of the rules of the board of regents, and the
    23  regulations  of  the  commissioner, relating to professional misconduct,
    24  disciplinary proceedings and penalties for professional misconduct.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
    26  manner as chapter 733 of the laws of 2023, takes effect. Effective imme-
    27  diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
    28  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    29  authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14103-01-4