Expands how applicants may qualify for a license to be a dentist to include postdoctoral specialty programs and advanced education programs in general dentistry.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8401--B
Cal. No. 770
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 9, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, HARCKHAM, SKOUFIS -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accord-
ance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --
reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second
report, ordered to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,
retaining its place in the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to licensing requirements
for prospective dentists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 6604 of the education law,
2 subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 613 of the laws of 2022 and subdivi-
3 sion 4 as amended by chapter 76 of the laws of 2004, are amended to read
4 as follows:
5 (3) Experience: have experience satisfactory to the board and in
6 accordance with the commissioner's regulations, provided that such expe-
7 rience shall consist of satisfactory completion of a postdoctoral gener-
8 al practice [or], specialty dental residency program or advanced educa-
9 tion program in general dentistry, of at least one year's duration, or
10 the first year of a multi-year postdoctoral specialty program, in a
11 hospital or dental facility accredited for teaching purposes by a
12 national accrediting body approved by the department, provided, further
13 that any such residency program or advanced education program in general
14 dentistry shall include a formal outcome assessment evaluation of the
15 resident's or program participant's competence to practice dentistry
16 acceptable to the department;
17 (4) Examination: pass a written examination satisfactory to the board
18 and in accordance with the commissioner's regulations. Applicants
19 applying after the first year of a multi-year postdoctoral specialty
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 program shall have also passed the clinical examination administered by
2 the American Board of Dental Examiners or another clinical examination
3 acceptable to the department;
4 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
5 law.
