S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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7561
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
April 1, 2025
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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 continuing education
requirements for landscape architects
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Section 7328 of the education law, as added by chapter 683
of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
§ 7328. Mandatory continuing education for landscape architects. 1.
(a) Each licensed landscape architect required under this article to
register triennially with the department to practice in the state shall
comply with provisions of the mandatory continuing education require-
ments prescribed in subdivision two of this section except as set forth
in paragraphs (b) and (c) of this subdivision. Landscape architects who
do not satisfy the mandatory continuing education requirements shall not
practice until they have met such requirements, and have been issued a
registration certificate, except that a landscape architect may practice
without having met such requirements if [he or she is] THEY ARE issued a
conditional registration certificate pursuant to subdivision three of
this section.
(b) Landscape architects shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing
education requirement for the triennial registration period during which
they are first licensed, in accordance with the intent of this section,
AN adjustment AND/OR EXEMPTION to the mandatory continuing education
requirement may be granted by the department for reasons of health
certified by an appropriate health care professional, for extended
active duty with the armed forces of the United States, or for other
good cause acceptable to the department which may prevent compliance.
(c) A licensed landscape architect not engaged in practice as deter-
mined by the department, shall be exempt from the mandatory continuing
education requirement upon the filing of a statement with the department
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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declaring such status. Any licensee who returns to the practice of land-
scape architecture during the triennial registration period shall notify
the department prior to reentering the profession and shall meet such
mandatory education requirements as shall be prescribed by regulations
of the commissioner.
2. During each triennial registration period an applicant for regis-
tration shall complete a minimum of thirty-six hours of acceptable
continuing education, as specified in subdivision four of this section,
provided that a minimum of twenty-four hours of such continuing educa-
tion shall be in the areas of health, safety and welfare. [Up to one-
half of the total hours of continuing education may consist of non-
course activities.] Any landscape architect whose first registration
date following the effective date of this section occurs less than three
years from such effective date, but on or after January first, two thou-
sand seven, shall complete continuing education hours on a prorated
basis at the rate of one hour per month for the period beginning January
first, two thousand seven up to the first registration date thereafter.
A licensee who has not satisfied the mandatory continuing education
requirements shall not be issued a triennial registration certificate by
the department and shall not practice unless and until a conditional
registration certificate is issued as provided for in subdivision three
of this section. [With the exception of continuing education hours taken
during the registration period immediately preceding the effective date
of this section, continuing education hours taken during one triennium
may not be transferred to a subsequent triennium] NO MORE THAN SIX
CONTINUING EDUCATION HOURS TAKEN DURING ONE TRIENNIUM MAY BE TRANSFERRED
TO A SUBSEQUENT TRIENNIUM.
3. The department, in its discretion, may issue a conditional regis-
tration to a licensee who fails to meet the continuing education
requirements established in subdivision two of this section but who
agrees to make up any deficiencies and complete any additional education
which the department may require. The fee for such a conditional regis-
tration shall be the same as, and in addition to, the fee for the trien-
nial registration. The duration of such conditional registration shall
be determined by the department but shall not exceed one year. Any
licensee who is notified of the denial of registration for failure to
submit evidence, satisfactory to the department, of required continuing
education and who practices landscape architecture without such regis-
tration, may be subject to disciplinary proceedings pursuant to section
sixty-five hundred ten of this title.
4. As used in subdivision two of this section, "acceptable continuing
education" shall mean courses of learning and educational activities
[which] IN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING, INTERIOR
DESIGN, LAND SURVEYING, AND GEOLOGY THAT MAY contribute to professional
practice in landscape architecture and which meet the standards
prescribed by regulations of the commissioner. COMPLETING COURSES OF
LEARNING AND EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES THAT FALL WITHIN THE SCOPE OF PRAC-
TICE OF ANOTHER LICENSED PROFESSION DOES NOT AUTHORIZE A LICENSED LAND-
SCAPE ARCHITECT TO LAWFULLY PRACTICE A PROFESSION THAT THEY ARE NOT
AUTHORIZED TO PRACTICE AS DEFINED IN SECTION SEVENTY-THREE HUNDRED TWEN-
TY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE. The department may, in its discretion and as
needed to contribute to the health and welfare of the public, require
the completion of continuing education courses in specific subjects.
5. Landscape architects shall maintain adequate documentation of
completion of acceptable continuing education and educational activities
and shall provide such documentation at the request of the department.
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6. The mandatory continuing education fee shall be forty-five dollars,
shall be payable on or before the first day of each triennial registra-
tion period, and shall be paid in addition to the triennial registration
fee required by section seventy-three hundred twenty-four of this arti-
cle.
§ 2. This act shall take effect eighteen months 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.