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Senate Bill S2360

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1220
Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6902, Ed L; amd Part C §8, Chap 57 of 2022
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S6800, A6445

2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2360
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed 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,  as
 amended  by  section  1  of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2024, is
 amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03723-01-5
 S. 2360                             2

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