S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 8, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, LIFTON, COOK, CLARK, COLTON, PALMESANO
-- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CAMARA, RIVERA -- 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 professional nurse's supervision
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of
section 6908 of the education law, as separately amended by section 1 of
part A of chapter 58 and section 27-c of part C of chapter 60 of the
laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
(iii) the providing of care by a person acting in the place of a
person exempt under [clause] SUBPARAGRAPH (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 services are 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.
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