Senate Bill S409

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Provides for the certification of psychologists to prescribe drugs

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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-S409 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §7601-a, add §7601-b, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7488
2015-2016: S5824
2017-2018: S4498
2021-2022: S560, S5756
2023-2024: S66

2019-S409 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the certification of psychologists to prescribe drugs.

2019-S409 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S409 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    409
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  granting  licensed
   psychologists prescriptive authority

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 7601-a of the education law, as  added  by  chapter
 676 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as follows:
   § 7601-a. Definition of the practice of psychology. 1. The practice of
 psychology  is the observation, description, evaluation, interpretation,
 and modification of behavior for the purpose of preventing or  eliminat-
 ing  symptomatic, maladaptive or undesired behavior; enhancing interper-
 sonal relationships, personal, group or organizational effectiveness and
 work and/or life adjustment;  and  improving  behavioral  health  and/or
 mental  health.  The practice includes, but is not limited to psycholog-
 ical (including neuropsychological) testing and counseling;  psychoanal-
 ysis;  psychotherapy;  the  diagnosis  and treatment of mental, nervous,
 emotional, cognitive or behavioral disorders, disabilities, ailments  or
 illnesses,  alcoholism,  substance abuse, disorders of habit or conduct,
 the psychological aspects of physical illness, accident, injury or disa-
 bility, psychological aspects of  learning  (including  learning  disor-
 ders);  [and]  the  use  of  accepted  classification  systems;  AND THE
 PRESCRIPTION OF APPROPRIATE DRUGS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION SEVENTY-SIX
 HUNDRED ONE-B OF THIS ARTICLE.  THE PRESCRIPTION OF DRUGS BY A  PSYCHOL-
 OGIST  IS  AUTHORIZED  ONLY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION
 SEVENTY-SIX HUNDRED ONE-B OF THIS ARTICLE AND THE REGULATIONS PROMULGAT-
 ED PURSUANT THERETO.
   2. The term "diagnosis and treatment" means the appropriate psycholog-
 ical diagnosis and the ordering or providing of treatment  according  to
 need. Treatment includes, but is not limited to counseling, psychothera-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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