STATE OF NEW YORK
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8392--C
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 15, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, GUNTHER, GIBSON, JACOBS,
JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. HOOPER, LATIMER, LINARES,
P. RIVERA, SWEENEY -- read once and referred to the Committee on High-
er Education -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- reported and referred to the Commit-
tee on Ways and Means -- reported and referred to the Committee on
Rules -- Rules Committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to the Committee on Rules -- again reported
from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to certification of
certified registered nurse anesthetists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6911
2 to read as follows:
3 § 6911. Certification of certified registered nurse anesthetists. 1.
4 For issuance of a certificate as a certified registered nurse anesthe-
5 tist, the applicant shall fulfill the following requirements:
6 (a) Application: file an application with the department;
7 (b) License: be licensed as a registered professional nurse in the
8 state;
9 (c) Education: (i) have satisfactorily completed an educational
10 program which is designed and conducted to prepare graduates to practice
11 in the specialty area of nurse anesthesia; and is registered by the
12 department or in a program accredited by a national body recognized by
13 the department or determined by the department to be the equivalent; and
14 (ii) submit evidence of current certification or recertification by a
15 national certifying body, recognized by the department;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) Fees: pay a fee to the department of fifty dollars for an initial
2 certificate authorizing nurse anesthesia practice and a triennial regis-
3 tration fee of thirty dollars. After a certified registered nurse
4 anesthetist's initial registration, registration under this section
5 shall be coterminous with the certified registered nurse anesthetist's
6 registration as a registered professional nurse.
7 2. Only a person certified under this section shall use the title
8 "certified registered nurse anesthetist".
9 3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any act author-
10 ized by any other law, rule, regulation or certification.
11 4. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate regulations solely to
12 implement the certification process set forth in this section. The
13 commissioner is not authorized to promulgate regulations to define the
14 practice of a certified registered nurse anesthetist. The commissioner
15 is authorized to promulgate regulations limited only to the certif-
16 ication provisions of this section to issue a certificate. Nothing in
17 this section shall be construed to alter or define the scope of prac-
18 tice.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
20 it shall have become a law, except that subdivision 2 of section 6911 of
21 the education law, as added by section one of this act shall take effect
22 three years after this act shall have become a law.
