STATE OF NEW YORK
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3021
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 2, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- 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 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 6912
2 to read as follows:
3 § 6912. 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 that 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 determined by the department to be the equivalent; and
13 (ii) submit evidence of current certification or recertification by a
14 national certifying body, recognized by the department;
15 (d) Fees: pay a fee to the department of fifty dollars for an initial
16 certificate authorizing nurse anesthesia practice and a triennial regis-
17 tration fee of thirty dollars. After a certified registered nurse
18 anesthetist's initial registration, registration under this section
19 shall be coterminous with the certified registered nurse anesthetist's
20 registration as a registered professional nurse.
21 2. Only a person certified under this section shall use the title
22 "certified registered nurse anesthetist".
23 3. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate regulations to imple-
24 ment the certification process set forth in this section.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to define a scope of
2 practice for certified registered nurse anesthetists or to alter the
3 scope of practice of any practitioner or professional certified or
4 licensed under title eight of this chapter or under the public health
5 law.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
7 it shall have become a law, except that subdivision 2 of section 6912 of
8 the education law, as added by section one of this act shall take effect
9 three years after this act shall have become a law.
