Assembly Bill A5238

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to limited permits to practice medicine

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A5238 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6525, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A8382

2025-A5238 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that limited permits to practice medicine may be renewed biennially; expands the types of facilities where permitees may practice; authorizes permits to be renewed at the discretion of the department of education; provides that such department shall not deny a limited permit based solely on the previous number of authorizations of such permits issued to the applicant.

2025-A5238 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5238
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. REYES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  limited  permits  to
   practice medicine
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 6525 of the education  law,
 as  added  by  chapter  987  of the laws of 1971, are amended to read as
 follows:
   2. Limit of practice. A permittee  shall  be  authorized  to  practice
 medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only in:
   (A) a public, voluntary, or proprietary hospital;
   (B)  A  PATIENT  CARE FACILITY OPERATED BY OR FOR ANY FEDERALLY RECOG-
 NIZED AMERICAN INDIAN TRIBE, A PRISON, A SCHOOL, OR A UNIVERSITY;
   (C) A COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OR FEDERALLY QUALIFIED HEALTH CENTER; OR
   (D) A PRIVATE OFFICE OR CLINIC WITH AT LEAST FOUR PRACTICING SUPERVIS-
 ING LICENSED PHYSICIANS, OPERATING ON A TWO TO ONE SUPERVISION RATIO  OF
 TWO PERMITTEES PER PHYSICIAN.
   3.  Duration. A limited permit shall be valid for two years AND MAY BE
 RENEWED BIENNIALLY.  [It may be renewed biennially at the discretion  of
 the  department] PERMITS MAY BE RENEWED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE DEPART-
 MENT, PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE DEPARTMENT SHALL NOT  DENY  A  LIMITED
 PERMIT  BASED  SOLELY  ON THE PREVIOUS NUMBER OF AUTHORIZATIONS THAT THE
 DEPARTMENT HAS ISSUED TO THE APPLICANT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07986-01-5

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