NY State Senate Bill 2025-S6329A

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May 09, 2025	print number 6329a
May 09, 2025	amend and recommit to higher education
Mar 10, 2025	referred to higher education

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2025-S6329 - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§8504 & 8510, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S5925
2023-2024: S4497

2025-S6329 - Summary

Relates to the license requirements for the practice of respiratory therapy; requires additional education.

2025-S6329 - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6329

SPONSOR: GOUNARDES
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the license require-
ments for the practice of respiratory therapy

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To update the license requirements for respiratory therapy consistent
with current national standards.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 changes the educational requirement for licensure as a respir-
atory therapist from an associate to a bachelor's degree.  Alternative-
ly, applicants may participate in a program deemed to be equivalent to a
bachelor's degree by the Education Department within six years of
initial licensure. The Education Department is empowered to issue condi-
tional registration to a licensee who does not attain a baccalaureate
degree but agrees to meet the additional requirement within one year.

Additionally, the Education Department may issue a two year temporary
educational exemption to licensees who are unable to meet the baccalau-
reate degree requirement due to a demonstrated lack of access to educa-
tional programs.

Section 2 ends the licensing of respiratory therapist technicians as
that licensing level is now obsolete.

Sections 3 and 4 state that the new licensure requirements will not
affect current licensees or students who are either currently enrolled
in or have a pending application for an approved associate degree
program in respiratory therapy or its approved equivalent.

Section 5 establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation will improve the health, safety, and welfare of New
York citizens in need of respiratory therapy services by increasing the
educational standards for Respiratory Therapists (RTs) to a bachelor's
degree in keeping with best practices. Respiratory Therapists are
healthcare practitioners who play an integral part in diagnosing lung
and breathing disorders, consulting with physicians on treatments,
assessing patients, and recommending specific changes in therapy based
on their patient assessments. They are involved in analyzing data to
determine levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other physiological
parameters. Respiratory Therapists contribute heavily to managing
patients on a variety of advanced modes of mechanical ventilation and
artificial airway devices, and actively participate in rapid response
teams and emergency situations.

Respiratory Therapists also provide education to patients and their
families about how to best care for their cardiopulmonary disorders in
both the inpatient and outpatient care setting.  Respiratory Therapists
played a significant role in treating COVID-19 patients who were crit-
ically ill and those who required life support equipment such as mechan-
ical ventilation, high flow oxygen therapy, or Extracorporeal Membrane
Oxygenation. Along with managing life support equipment, Respiratory
Therapists intubate patients, and are responsible for obtaining arterial
blood gases to help make critical parameter adjustments to patients on
life support equipment. With significant healthcare resource shortages
and a significant increase in critical care patient load during the
COVID-19 pandemic, it was imperative that Respiratory Therapists think
quickly and provide immediate critical care during this extremely diffi-
cult time.

New York first recognized the practice of respiratory therapy and
respiratory therapist technician as licensed professions in 1992.
Cardiopulmonary medicine, pharmaceutical treatment, and medical technol-
ogy have significantly advanced since 1992, as has the academic prepara-
tion and professional standards for Respiratory Therapists. A corre-
sponding advancement in educational requirements for licensure to a
bachelor's degree is necessary to ensure that future respiratory thera-
pists are adequately academically prepared for this expanding role.
Associate degree programs have a limited amount of time to properly
deliver the curriculum, while bachelor's degree programs have the abili-
ty for educational training and experience in more advanced clinical
practice, teaching, management, and research. This higher academic
requirement will ensure Respiratory Therapists are able to continue to
contribute to improving patient outcomes. Those individuals currently
licenesed Respiratory Therapists will not be impacted by this legis-
lation, and the legislation allows for a six year period for a new
licensee that is a graduate of an associate's degree program to complete
a bachelor's degree while still being licensed as a respiratory thera-
pist during that six year period.

Additionally, this legislation eliminates the Respiratory Therapist
Technician license for new applicants but allows previously issued
licenses to be renewed. The state no longer has one-year certificate
programs for Respiratory Therapist Technicians. In addition, a national
educational accrediting body report indicates that individuals who were
baccalaureate prepared had a greater passage rate for Registered Respir-
atory Therapist credentialing than those who were associate degree
prepared. In 2020, the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care
(CoARC) updated its "Entry into Professional Practice" standards to
reflect the minimum expectation goal of respiratory care practice
performed by Registered Respiratory Therapists (RRT), eliminating the
previous standard which relied on the CRT exam success rate (for RTT
license) as outcome measurement for programs.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S4497A - Referred to Higher Education

2023: S4497A - Referred to Higher Education

2022: S5925 - Referred to Higher Education

2021: S5925 - Referred to Higher Education

2020: A7304 - Referred to Higher Education

2019: A7304 - Referred to Higher Education

2018: S8484 - Referred to Higher Education
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
Immediately

2025-S6329 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6329
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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 the license require-
   ments for the practice of respiratory therapy
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 8504 of the education law, as
 added by chapter 817 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Education: have received an education, including completion  of  an
 approved  [associate]  BACHELOR degree program in respiratory therapy or
 in a program determined by the department to be the equivalent;  AND  IN
 ORDER  TO  CONTINUE  TO  MAINTAIN REGISTRATION AS A LICENSED RESPIRATORY
 THERAPIST IN NEW YORK STATE, HAVE ATTAINED  A  BACCALAUREATE  DEGREE  OR
 HIGHER  IN RESPIRATORY THERAPY OR IN A PROGRAM DETERMINED BY THE DEPART-
 MENT TO BE THE EQUIVALENT WITHIN  SIX  YEARS  OF  INITIAL  LICENSURE  IN
 ACCORDANCE  WITH THE COMMISSIONER'S REGULATIONS.  THE DEPARTMENT, IN ITS
 DISCRETION, MAY ISSUE A CONDITIONAL REGISTRATION TO A LICENSEE WHO FAILS
 TO COMPLETE THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE BUT WHO AGREES TO  MEET  THE  ADDI-
 TIONAL  REQUIREMENT  WITHIN  ONE  YEAR.  THE  FEE FOR SUCH A CONDITIONAL
 REGISTRATION SHALL BE THE SAME AS, AND IN ADDITION TO, THE FEE  FOR  THE
 TRIENNIAL  REGISTRATION.  THE  DURATION OF SUCH CONDITIONAL REGISTRATION
 SHALL BE FOR ONE YEAR AND MAY BE EXTENDED, WITH THE PAYMENT  OF  A  FEE,
 FOR NO MORE THAN ONE ADDITIONAL YEAR, UNLESS THE APPLICANT CAN SHOW GOOD
 CAUSE  FOR NON-COMPLIANCE ACCEPTABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT.  THE DEPARTMENT,
 IN ITS DISCRETION, MAY ISSUE A  TEMPORARY  EDUCATIONAL  EXEMPTION  TO  A
 LICENSEE  WHO  IS  UNABLE  TO COMPLETE THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE DUE TO A
 LACK OF ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS. LICENSEES  SEEKING  A  TEMPORARY
 EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTION SHALL PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF APPLYING ON AT LEAST TWO
 OCCASIONS TO A BACCALAUREATE DEGREE PROGRAM OR PROGRAMS AND SUBSEQUENTLY
 BEING  DENIED  ACCESS  TO SUCH PROGRAM OR PROGRAMS ON AT LEAST TWO OCCA-
 SIONS DUE TO THERE BEING A LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS. SUCH  DENIALS  SHALL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00827-01-5

 S. 6329                             2
 
 ALSO BE CORROBORATED BY THE HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION OR INSTITUTIONS
 THAT  THE  LICENSEE  APPLIED TO. TEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTIONS ISSUED
 PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE FOR  A  SINGLE  TWO  YEAR  PERIOD.
 LICENSEES  SHALL  ONLY BE ELIGIBLE FOR EITHER A CONDITIONAL REGISTRATION
 OR A TEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTION.  THE  FEE  FOR  SUCH  A  TEMPORARY
 EDUCATIONAL  EXEMPTION SHALL BE THE SAME AS, AND IN ADDITION TO, THE FEE
 FOR THE TRIENNIAL REGISTRATION.   ANY LICENSEE WHO IS  NOTIFIED  OF  THE
 DENIAL  OF  A REGISTRATION FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE THE ADDITIONAL EDUCA-
 TIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND WHO PRACTICES AS A LICENSED  RESPIRATORY  THERA-
 PIST   WITHOUT   SUCH   REGISTRATION  MAY  BE  SUBJECT  TO  DISCIPLINARY
 PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TEN OF THIS TITLE;
   § 2. Section 8513 of the education law, as added by chapter 817 of the
 laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   § 8513. Special provisions. 1. A  person  shall  be  licensed  without
 examination provided that, within one year of the effective date of this
 article, the individual:
   [1.](A)  files  an  application  and  pays the appropriate fees to the
 department; and
   [2. (a)](B)(1) is certified by a national  certifying  or  accrediting
 board  for respiratory therapy technicians acceptable to the department,
 or
   [(b)](2) has practiced as a respiratory therapy technician in a hospi-
 tal, as defined in article twenty-eight of the public health law, in the
 state for not less than two years within the last five years, or
   [(c)](3) has met the educational standards of a hospital,  as  defined
 in  article  twenty-eight of the public health law, or, in the case of a
 hospital operated by a public benefit corporation, has  met  the  educa-
 tional standards of such corporation, and has practiced as a respiratory
 therapy technician for at least one year in such hospital.
   2.  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL  NOT ACCEPT NEW APPLICATIONS FOR AN INITIAL
 LICENSE AS A RESPIRATORY THERAPY TECHNICIAN, PROVIDED  HOWEVER  THAT  AN
 INDIVIDUAL  LICENSED  AS  A RESPIRATORY THERAPY TECHNICIAN PRIOR TO THAT
 DATE SHALL BE ELIGIBLE TO RENEW THE REGISTRATION OF THE LICENSE  SUBJECT
 TO THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION.
   § 3.  The provisions of this act shall not apply to:
   1. any student currently enrolled in, or having an application pending
 in,  an approved associate degree program in respiratory therapy or in a
 program determined by the department to be  the  equivalent  as  of  the
 effective date of this act; or
   2. any person already licensed as a respiratory therapist.
   §  4.  Any  individual  covered  by section three of this act shall be
 deemed fully licensed provided that such individual meets  the  require-
 ments set forth by article 164 of the education law.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that
 section one of this act shall take effect two years after this act shall
 have become a law.

co-Sponsors

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§8504 & 8510, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S5925
2023-2024: S4497

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the license requirements for the practice of respiratory therapy; requires additional education.

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S6329A

SPONSOR: GOUNARDES
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to the license require-
ments for the practice of respiratory therapy

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To update the license requirements for respiratory therapy consistent
with current national standards.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 changes the educational requirement for licensure as a respir-
atory therapist to first require an associate degree for initial licen-
sure and then, within six years of initial licensure, require a bach-
elors degree to maintain continued registration.  Alternatively,
applicants may participate in programs deemed to be equivalent to the
required associate and baccalaureate degrees by the Education Depart-
ment. The Education Department is empowered to issue a three year tempo-

rary educational exemption to licensees who are unable to meet the
baccalaureate degree requirement due to a demonstrated lack of access to
educational programs corroborated by corresponding letters from both
programs affirming that the applicant is not accepted due to a limited
number of seats available in their programs.

Section 2 changes the licensing of new respiratory therapist technicians
to first be an initial license valid for a single three year period,
during or after which, they must subsequently satisfy the licensure
requirements for an initial respiratory therapist license in order to
continue the practice of respiratory therapy in New York State.

Sections 3 and 4 state that new licensure requirements will not affect
currently licensed respiratory therapists or respiratory therapy techni-
cians.

Section 5 establishes an immediate effective date with the exception of
section one which will take effect three years after it shall have
become a law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation will improve the health, safety, and welfare of New
York citizens in need of respiratory therapy services by requiring
further education for both respiratory therapists and respiratory thera-
py technicians. Respiratory Therapists are healthcare practitioners who
play an integral part in diagnosing lung and breathing disorders,
consulting with physicians on treatments, assessing patients, and recom-
mending specific changes in therapy based on their patient assessments.
Respiratory Therapists contribute heavily to managing patients on
mechanical ventilation and artificial airway devices, and actively
participate in rapid response teams to emergency situations such as the
COVID-19 pandemic which significantly increased critical care patient
load. Respiratory Therapy Technicians support Respiratory Therapists and
physicians by administering basic treatments such as oxygen therapy,
monitoring patients, and maintaining respiratory equipment playing a

vital role in delivering frontline respiratory care under supervision in
hospitals and other healthcare settings.

New York first recognized the practice of respiratory therapy and
respiratory therapist technician as licensed professions in 1992.
Cardiopulmonary medicine, pharmaceutical treatment, and medical technol-
ogy have significantly advanced since 1992, as has the academic prepara-
tion and professional standards for Respiratory Therapists. A corre-
sponding advancement in educational requirements for licensure to a
bachelor's degree is necessary to ensure that future respiratory thera-
pists are adequately academically prepared for this expanding role.
Associate degree programs have a limited amount of time to deliver the
curriculum while bachelor's degree programs have greater capacity for
educational training and experience in more advanced clinical practice,
teaching, management, and research. A national educational accrediting
body report indicates that individuals who were baccalaureate prepared
had a greater passage rate for Registered Respiratory Therapist creden-
tialing than those who were associate degree prepared.

Current educational standards for Respiratory Therapists require, at
minimum, an associates degree from a valid respiratory therapy program.
Under this bill, Respiratory Therapists would be able to reach initial
licensure with an associates degree and then, within 6 years, be
required to attain a bachelors degree from a valid respiratory therapy
program to maintain continued registration within their practice. Simi-
larly, new Respiratory Therapy Technicians will be eligible to practice
under licensure for a single three year period after which they will be
required to fulfill the requirements for, and obtain, a license as a
Respiratory Therapist. There are no longer any Respiratory Therapy Tech-
nician training programs in New York, and therefore, new applicants for
the Respiratory Therapy Technician license are applying for licensure as
a graduate of an associates degree program, but may not have
satisfiedòthe necessary examination requirements for licensure as a
respiratory therapist. Individuals currently licensed as Respiratory
Therapists or Respiratory Therapy Technicians will not be impacted by
this legislation.

This licensure on-ramp created in this bill allows New York to maintain
an associates level entry point for both respiratory therapists and
respiratory therapy technicians maintaining the role of community
colleges in respiratory therapy education while alleviating enrollment
shortfalls in baccalaureate level respiratory therapy programs. Requir-
ing a bachelor's degree, whether attained prior to practice or during,
better equips applicants for therapist licensure to fulfill exam
requirements. Those who do not meet the established benchmarks for
Respiratory Therapists are still able to practice as Respiratory Therapy
Technicians for an initial three year period. This provides both practi-
tioners the flexibility to meet respective exam benchmarks and fulfill
educational standards for respiratory therapist licensure at whichever
pace is most feasible for them.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2024: S4497A - Referred to Higher Education

2023: S4497A - Referred to Higher Education

2022: S5925 - Referred to Higher Education
2021: S5925 - Referred to Higher Education

2020: A7304 - Referred to Higher Education

2019: A7304 - Referred to Higher Education

2018: S8484 - Referred to Higher Education

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that section
one of this act shall take effect three years after this act shall have
become a law.

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6329--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. GOUNARDES, PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered print-
   ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Educa-
   tion -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to the license require-
   ments for the practice of respiratory therapy
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section 8504 of the education law, as
 added by chapter 817 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Education: have received an education, including completion  of  an
 approved associate degree program in respiratory therapy or in a program
 determined  by  the  department  to  be the equivalent. TO CONTINUE   TO
 MAINTAIN REGISTRATION AS A LICENSED RESPIRATORY THERAPIST  IN  NEW  YORK
 STATE,  LICENSEES  MUST SUBSEQUENTLY ATTAIN, WITHIN SIX  YEARS  OF THEIR
 INITIAL  LICENSURE AS A RESPIRATORY THERAPIST,  A BACCALAUREATE   DEGREE
 OR  HIGHER    IN  RESPIRATORY THERAPY, OR IN A PROGRAM DETERMINED BY THE
 DEPARTMENT TO BE THE EQUIVALENT.  THE DEPARTMENT, IN ITS DISCRETION, MAY
 ISSUE A TEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTION TO A LICENSEE WHO IS  UNABLE  TO
 COMPLETE THE BACCALAUREATE DEGREE DUE TO A LACK OF ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL
 PROGRAMS.  LICENSEES  SEEKING  A  TEMPORARY  EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTION SHALL
 PROVIDE A COPY OF  THEIR  APPLICATION  TO  TWO  DIFFERENT  BACCALAUREATE
 PROGRAMS  AND  THE  CORRESPONDING  LETTERS  FROM  BOTH PROGRAMS THAT THE
 APPLICANT IS NOT ACCEPTED DUE TO A LIMITED NUMBER OF SEATS AVAILABLE  IN
 THE  PROGRAM.   TEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTIONS ISSUED PURSUANT TO THIS
 SUBDIVISION SHALL BE FOR A SINGLE THREE YEAR PERIOD.  THE FEE FOR SUCH A
 TEMPORARY EDUCATIONAL EXEMPTION SHALL BE THE SAME AS,  AND  IN  ADDITION
 TO,  THE  FEE FOR THE TRIENNIAL REGISTRATION.  ANY LICENSEE WHO IS NOTI-
 FIED OF THE DENIAL OF A REGISTRATION FOR FAILURE TO COMPLETE  THE  ADDI-
 TIONAL  EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS AND WHO PRACTICES AS A LICENSED RESPIR-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00827-02-5
 S. 6329--A                          2

 
 ATORY THERAPIST WITHOUT SUCH REGISTRATION MAY BE SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINARY
 PROCEEDINGS PURSUANT TO SECTION SIXTY-FIVE HUNDRED TEN OF THIS TITLE;
   § 2. Section 8510 of the education law, as added by chapter 817 of the
 laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   § 8510. Requirements  for  licensure  as a respiratory therapy techni-
 cian. 1. To qualify for a license as a respiratory therapy technician an
 applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:
   [1.] (A) Application: file an application with the department;
   [2.] (B) Education: have received an education including completion of
 high school or its equivalent and have completed  an  approved  one-year
 certificate   respiratory therapy education program, or a program deter-
 mined equivalent, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
   [3.] (C) Experience: have experience satisfactory to the board and  in
 accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
   [4.]  (D)  Examination:  pass an examination satisfactory to the board
 and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
   [5.] (E) Age: be at least eighteen years of age;
   [6.] (F) Character: be of good moral character as  determined  by  the
 department; and
   [7.]  (G)  Fees:  pay  a  fee  of ninety dollars to the department for
 admission to a department  conducted  examination  and  for  an  initial
 license;  a fee of sixty dollars for each re-examination; a fee of fifty
 dollars for an initial license for persons not requiring admission to  a
 department  conducted  examination  and a fee of ninety dollars for each
 triennial registration period commencing on and after June first,  nine-
 teen hundred ninety-three.
   2. ALL NEW APPLICANTS WHO SATISFY THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION MAY
 RECEIVE  AN  INITIAL  RESPIRATORY THERAPY TECHNICIAN LICENSE VALID FOR A
 SINGLE THREE YEAR PERIOD. DURING OR AFTER THIS INITIAL LICENSURE  PERIOD
 RESPIRATORY THERAPY TECHNICIANS SHALL SUBSEQUENTLY SATISFY THE LICENSURE
 REQUIREMENTS  FOR  AN  INITIAL RESPIRATORY THERAPIST LICENSE PURSUANT TO
 SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION EIGHTY-FIVE HUNDRED FOUR OF THIS ARTICLE  AND
 OBTAIN  SUCH  LICENSE  IN  ORDER TO CONTINUE THE PRACTICE OF RESPIRATORY
 THERAPY IN NEW YORK STATE.
   § 3.   The provisions of this  act  shall  not  apply  to  any  person
 licensed as a respiratory therapist or respiratory therapy technician as
 of the effective date of this act.
   §  4.  Any  individual  covered  by section three of this act shall be
 deemed fully licensed provided that such individual meets  the  require-
 ments set forth by article 164 of the education law.
   §  5.  This  act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that
 section one of this act shall take effect three  years  after  this  act
 shall have become a law.

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Senate Bill S6329A

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

2025-S6329 - Details

2025-S6329 - Summary

2025-S6329 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6329 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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Andrew Gounardes

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

Bill Amendments

co-Sponsors

Anthony H. Palumbo

2025-S6329 - Details

2025-S6329 - Summary

2025-S6329 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6329 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Anthony H. Palumbo

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6329A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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