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                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
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 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. B. Miller)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to adopting the  Physical
   Therapy Licensure Compact model language (Part A); to amend the educa-
   tion  law,  in relation to adopting the Occupational Therapy Licensure
   Compact model language (Part B); and to amend the  education  law,  in
   relation  to  adopting  the  Audiology  and  Speech-Language Pathology
   Interstate Compact (Part C)
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act enacts into law components of legislation enacting
 the  Physical Therapy Licensure Compact, the Occupational Therapy Licen-
 sure Compact, and the Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Interstate
 Compact.  Each component is wholly contained within a Part identified as
 Parts A through C. The effective  date  for  each  particular  provision
 contained  within  such  Part  is  set forth in the last section of such
 Part. Any provision in any section contained within  a  Part,  including
 the  effective  date of the Part, which makes reference to a section "of
 this act", when used in connection with that particular component, shall
 be deemed to mean and refer to the corresponding section of the Part  in
 which  it  is  found.  Section  three of this act sets forth the general
 effective date of this act.
 
                                  PART A
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  6744
 to read as follows:
   § 6744. PHYSICAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW TO
 THE  CONTRARY,  THE PHYSICAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT MODEL LANGUAGE IS
 HEREBY ADOPTED AND ENACTED INTO LAW AND ENTERED INTO WITH ALL  JURISDIC-
 TIONS LEGALLY JOINING THEREIN.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
                                  PART B
 
   Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 7909
 to read as follows:
   § 7909. OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE  COMPACT.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY
 LAW  TO  THE  CONTRARY, THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY LICENSURE COMPACT MODEL
 LANGUAGE, AS REVISED AS OF FEBRUARY FOURTH, TWENTY TWENTY-ONE, IS HEREBY
 ADOPTED AND ENACTED INTO LAW AND ENTERED  INTO  WITH  ALL  JURISDICTIONS
 LEGALLY JOINING THEREIN.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
                                  PART C
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 8209-a
 to read as follows:
   § 8209-A. AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE  COMPACT.
 NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE AUDIOLOGY AND SPEECH-LAN-
 GUAGE PATHOLOGY INTERSTATE COMPACT IS HEREBY ADOPTED  AND  ENACTED  INTO
 LAW AND ENTERED INTO WITH ALL JURISDICTIONS LEGALLY JOINING THEREIN.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
   § 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
 sion, section or part of this act shall be  adjudged  by  any  court  of
 competent  jurisdiction  to  be invalid, such judgment shall not affect,
 impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof, but shall  be  confined  in
 its  operation  to the clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section
 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
 the legislature that this act would  have  been  enacted  even  if  such
 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
   §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 the applicable effective date of Parts A through C of this act shall  be
 as specifically set forth in the last section of such Parts.