S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7894
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 20, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, LIFTON, BURLING, PALMESANO -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the provision of nurs-
ing level care under a registered nurse's supervision
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Clause (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section
6908 of the education law, as amended by chapter 160 of the laws of
2003, is amended to read as follows:
(iii) the providing of care by a person acting in the place of a
person exempt under clause (i) of this paragraph, but who does hold
himself or herself out as one who accepts employment for performing such
care, where nursing services are under the instruction of a licensed
REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL nurse, or under the instruction of a patient or
family or household member determined by a registered professional nurse
to be self-directing and capable of providing such instruction, and any
remuneration is provided under section three hundred sixty-five-f of the
social services law OR FOR SERVICES UNDER AN ENTITY CERTIFIED, APPROVED
OR LICENSED UNDER ARTICLE THIRTY-SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW; or
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11309-01-1