STATE OF NEW YORK
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7894
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 20, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, LIFTON, BURLING, PALMESANO -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the provision of nurs-
ing level care under a registered nurse's supervision
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Clause (iii) of paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section
2 6908 of the education law, as amended by chapter 160 of the laws of
3 2003, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) the providing of care by a person acting in the place of a
5 person exempt under clause (i) of this paragraph, but who does hold
6 himself or herself out as one who accepts employment for performing such
7 care, where nursing services are under the instruction of a licensed
8 registered professional nurse, or under the instruction of a patient or
9 family or household member determined by a registered professional nurse
10 to be self-directing and capable of providing such instruction, and any
11 remuneration is provided under section three hundred sixty-five-f of the
12 social services law or for services under an entity certified, approved
13 or licensed under article thirty-six of the public health law; or
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11309-01-1
