Permits certain licensed athletic trainers who are licensed to practice in another state or territory to provide athletic training services to athletes and team personnel at a discrete sanctioned team sporting event or performance in this state.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5275
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 20, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. BAILEY, GALLIVAN, SALAZAR, WEBB -- 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 permitting certain
licensed athletic trainers to practice in New York state if they are
licensed to practice in another state or territory
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 8356 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. (a) Any athletic trainer who is licensed and in good standing in
4 another state or territory, and who has a written agreement to provide
5 athletic training services to athletes and team personnel of a United
6 States sports team recognized by the United States Olympic and Paralym-
7 pic Committees or an out-of-state secondary school, an institution of
8 postsecondary education, a professional or amateur athletic organization
9 sports team, or a performing arts troupe, may provide athletic training
10 services to such athletes and team personnel at a discrete sanctioned
11 team sporting event or performance in this state as defined by the
12 commissioner in regulations, provided such services are provided only to
13 such athletes and team personnel at the discrete sanctioned team sport-
14 ing event or performance. Any such athletic training services shall be
15 provided only five days before through three days after each discrete
16 sanctioned team sporting event or traveling performance.
17 (b) Any person practicing as an athletic trainer in this state pursu-
18 ant to this subdivision shall be subject to the personal and subject
19 matter jurisdiction and disciplinary and regulatory authority of the
20 board of regents as if such person is a licensee and as if the exemption
21 pursuant to this subdivision is a license. Such individual shall comply
22 with applicable provisions of the rules of the board of regents, and the
23 regulations of the commissioner, relating to professional misconduct,
24 disciplinary proceedings and penalties for professional misconduct.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05788-01-5
