Assembly Bill A9478A

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to dental hygiene practice and the administration or monitoring of nitrous oxide analgesia or local infiltration anesthesia

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  • 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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2021-A9478 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6694
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6605-b, Ed L

2021-A9478 - Summary

Relates to infiltration anesthesia and nitrous oxide analgesia in the practice of registered dental hygiene.

2021-A9478 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9478
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to dental  hygiene  prac-
   tice and local infiltration anesthesia and nitrous oxide
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6605-b of the  education  law,  as
 added by chapter 437 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A  dental  hygienist shall not administer or monitor nitrous oxide
 analgesia or local infiltration anesthesia in  the  practice  of  dental
 hygiene   without   a   dental  hygiene  restricted  local  infiltration
 anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia  certificate  and  except  under  the
 personal  supervision of a dentist [and in conjunction with the perform-
 ance of dental hygiene procedures authorized by law] and  in  accordance
 with  regulations promulgated by the commissioner. Personal supervision,
 for purposes of this section, means that the supervising dentist remains
 in the dental office where the local infiltration anesthesia or  nitrous
 oxide  analgesia services are being performed, personally authorizes and
 prescribes the use of local infiltration  anesthesia  or  nitrous  oxide
 analgesia  for  the  patient  and,  before  dismissal  of  the  patient,
 personally examines the condition of the patient after the use of  local
 infiltration  anesthesia  or nitrous oxide analgesia is completed. It is
 professional misconduct for a dentist to fail to provide the supervision
 required by this section, and any dentist found guilty of  such  miscon-
 duct  under  the procedures prescribed in section sixty-five hundred ten
 of this [title] ARTICLE shall be subject to the penalties prescribed  in
 section sixty-five hundred eleven of this [title] ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14790-01-2

2021-A9478A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6694
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6605-b, Ed L

2021-A9478A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to infiltration anesthesia and nitrous oxide analgesia in the practice of registered dental hygiene.

2021-A9478A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  9478--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. LUPARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to dental  hygiene  prac-
   tice and local infiltration anesthesia and nitrous oxide

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6605-b of the  education  law,  as
 added by chapter 437 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A  dental  hygienist shall not administer or monitor nitrous oxide
 analgesia or local infiltration anesthesia in  the  practice  of  dental
 hygiene   without   a   dental  hygiene  restricted  local  infiltration
 anesthesia/nitrous oxide analgesia  certificate  and  except  under  the
 personal  supervision of a dentist [and in conjunction with the perform-
 ance of dental hygiene procedures authorized by law] and  in  accordance
 with  regulations promulgated by the commissioner. Personal supervision,
 for purposes of this section, means that the supervising dentist remains
 in the dental office where the local infiltration anesthesia or  nitrous
 oxide  analgesia services are being performed, personally authorizes and
 prescribes the use of local infiltration  anesthesia  or  nitrous  oxide
 analgesia  for  the  patient  and,  before  dismissal  of  the  patient,
 personally examines the condition of the patient after the use of  local
 infiltration  anesthesia  or nitrous oxide analgesia is completed. It is
 professional misconduct for a dentist to fail to provide the supervision
 required by this section, and any dentist found guilty of  such  miscon-
 duct  under  the procedures prescribed in section sixty-five hundred ten
 of this title shall be subject to the penalties  prescribed  in  section
 sixty-five hundred eleven of this title.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14790-02-2

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