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                                   4342
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. 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.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04787-01-3
              

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   § 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 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.