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                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 18, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to the licensure of a
   professional geologist; and to repeal subdivision 2 of section  7206-b
   of the education law relating thereto

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 7206-b of  the  education  law  is
 REPEALED  and  subdivisions  3 and 4 are renumbered subdivisions 2 and 3
 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
   4. APPLICANTS WHO FILE WITH THE DEPARTMENT WITHIN  TWO  YEARS  OF  THE
 EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION AN APPLICATION AND FEE REQUIREMENTS
 PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (G) OF SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION
 AND  WHO,  AT SUCH TIME OR ANYTIME THEREAFTER, DEMONSTRATE TO THE SATIS-
 FACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT THAT THEY HAVE TWELVE YEARS OF PRACTICAL EXPE-
 RIENCE IN WORK SATISFACTORY TO THE BOARD MAY SUBSTITUTE SUCH  EXPERIENCE
 FOR  THE  DEGREE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPHS (B)
 AND (C) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT EACH
 FULL YEAR OF STUDY IN GEOLOGY DEEMED SATISFACTORY TO THE DEPARTMENT MAY,
 AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD, BE ACCEPTED IN LIEU OF UP TO  TWO  YEARS
 OF THE REQUIRED TWELVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 7206-b of the education law, as added by
 chapter 475 of the laws of 2014 and as renumbered by section one of this
 act, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  For an identification card as [an "intern geologist"] A "GEOLOGIST
 IN TRAINING", an applicant shall fulfill the requirements of subdivision
 one of this section, except those in paragraphs  (c)  and  (e)  of  such
 subdivision,  provided  that  admission  to the examination may be given
 when the applicant is within twenty credits of  the  completion  of  the
 requirements  of  the bachelor's degree or higher as prescribed in para-
 graph (b) of subdivision one of this  section[,  or  has  completed  the

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 practical  experience  requirement  of subdivision two of this section].
 The fee for the examination and identification card as [an "intern geol-
 ogist"] A "GEOLOGIST IN TRAINING" shall be seventy dollars and  the  fee
 for each reexamination shall be seventy dollars.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law and shall apply to applications for licensure
 as  a  professional geologist on or after such effective date. Effective
 immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regu-
 lation  necessary  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective
 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective
 date.