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Assembly Bill A6445

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners

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2023-A6445 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6800
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6902, Ed L; amd Part C §8, Chap 57 of 2022
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A1220, S2360

2023-A6445 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners.

2023-A6445 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6445
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to supervision by certain
   nurse  practitioners; and to amend part C of chapter 57 of the laws of
   2022 amending the education law relating to modernizing nurse  practi-
   tioners, in relation to making certain provisions permanent
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3  of
 section  6902 of the education law, as amended by section 2 of part D of
 chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) The practice of registered professional nursing by a nurse practi-
 tioner, certified under section six thousand nine hundred  ten  of  this
 article,  may  include  the diagnosis of illness and physical conditions
 and the performance of therapeutic  and  corrective  measures  within  a
 specialty  area  of practice, in collaboration with a licensed physician
 OR NURSE PRACTITIONER PRACTICING  PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH  (B)  OF  THIS
 SUBDIVISION,   qualified  to  collaborate  in  the  specialty  involved,
 provided such services are performed in accordance with a written  prac-
 tice  agreement  and  written  practice protocols except as permitted by
 paragraph (b) of this subdivision. The written practice agreement  shall
 include  explicit  provisions  for  the  resolution  of any disagreement
 between the collaborating physician and the nurse practitioner regarding
 a matter of diagnosis or treatment that is within the scope of  practice
 of  both. To the extent the practice agreement does not so provide, then
 the collaborating physician's diagnosis or treatment shall prevail.
   § 2. Section 8 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of  2022,  amending
 the  education  law  relating  to  modernizing  nurse  practitioners, is
 amended to read as follows:
   § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10593-01-3

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