Senate Bill S2563

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-S2563 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6902, add §6912, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3288
2011-2012: S2766
2013-2014: S3328
2015-2016: S2048
2017-2018: S3501
2021-2022: S3381
2023-2024: S1594

2019-S2563 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia; provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of an application, having a license as a registered professional nurse, having the appropriate educational requirements and paying the fifty dollar initial certification fee and the triennial thirty dollar registration fee.

2019-S2563 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S2563 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2563
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 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  the  profession  of
   nurse anesthesia
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Legislative  intent.  The  legislature  hereby  finds  that
 certified  registered nurse anesthetists are highly educated and trained
 advanced practice nurses who hold a national professional certification,
 and whose competency in the professional practice of nurse anesthesia in
 hospitals, free-standing ambulatory surgery  centers,  clinics,  profes-
 sional  offices  and  other facilities is well known. Nurse anesthetists
 are integral to the continued professional delivery of services in  such
 health care facilities throughout the state.
   The  legislature  further  finds  that  statutory recognition of nurse
 anesthetists will further enhance  patient  safety  by  codifying  their
 professional  scope of practice that is currently governed in this state
 by regulations promulgated pursuant to the public health law in the case
 of hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
   The legislature also finds that while nurse anesthetists are  advanced
 practice  nurses, licensed as registered professional nurses under arti-
 cle 139 of the education law, no provision  of  this  act  is  meant  to
 limit,  diminish  or in any way impinge upon the practice of the profes-
 sion of nursing as a registered professional nurse under such article.
   Therefore, the legislature hereby declares that, due to the  intrinsic
 nature  of  the administration of anesthesia services, the integral part
 that certified registered nurse anesthetists play in the  safe  delivery
 of  such  services and the need to protect and enhance patient safety in
 all health care facilities, it is in the interest of the people of  this
 state to recognize the national professional certification of registered
 nurse  anesthetists  and  that  the  existing scope of practice of nurse

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

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