The New York State Senate

 
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                                   4552
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 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 inter-
   state nurse licensure compact (Part A); and  to  amend  the  education
   law,  in  relation  to adopting the advanced practice registered nurse
   compact (Part B)

   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 relating
 to  enacting  the  interstate  nurse  licensure compact and the advanced
 practice registered nurse compact. Each component  is  wholly  contained
 within  a  Part  identified as Parts A through B. 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  6912
 to read as follows:
   § 6912. INTERSTATE NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW TO
 THE CONTRARY, THE INTERSTATE NURSE LICENSURE COMPACT, WHICH WAS APPROVED
 BY  A  SPECIAL DELEGATE ASSEMBLY OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE BOARDS
 OF NURSING ON MAY FOURTH, TWO THOUSAND FIFTEEN, IS HEREBY  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
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04789-01-3

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 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 6913
 to read as follows:
   § 6913. ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE COMPACT.    NOTWITHSTANDING
 ANY LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE ADVANCED PRACTICE REGISTERED NURSE COMPACT,
 WHICH  WAS  ADOPTED  BY  THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF STATE BOARDS OF NURSING
 DELEGATE ASSEMBLY ON AUGUST TWELFTH,  TWO  THOUSAND  TWENTY,  IS  HEREBY
 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 B of this act shall  be
 as specifically set forth in the last section of such Parts.