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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3145
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 30, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. KRUEGER -- 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  as  a
          clinical nurse specialist (CNS)
 
          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  as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS).  1. For
     4  issuance of a certificate to practice as  a  clinical  nurse  specialist
     5  under  section six thousand nine hundred two of this article, the appli-
     6  cant shall fulfill the following requirements:
     7    (a) file an application with the department;
     8    (b) be licensed as a registered professional nurse in this state;
     9    (c) (i) have satisfactorily completed an  educational  program  regis-
    10  tered  by  the  department including a master's or doctoral degree, or a
    11  post-master's certificate from a program acceptable  to  the  department

    12  which  prepares graduates to practice as CNSs and which is accredited by
    13  a national nursing accredited body acceptable  to  the  department,  and
    14  (ii) meets all other requirements established by the department to prac-
    15  tice  as a clinical nurse specialist, or (iii) have received educational
    16  preparation determined by the department to be  the  substantial  equiv-
    17  alent of subparagraphs (i) and (ii) of this paragraph; and
    18    (d)  pay  a  fee  to  the department of fifty dollars for each initial
    19  certificate authorizing clinical nurse specialist practice and a  trien-
    20  nial registration fee of thirty dollars. Registration under this section
    21  shall  be  coterminous with the clinical nurse specialist's registration
    22  as a professional nurse.

    23    2. Only a person certified under this  section  shall  use  the  title
    24  "clinical nurse specialist" or the designation "CNS".
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00946-01-3
        S. 3145                             2
 
     1    § 2. The provisions of this act shall not apply to any act or practice
     2  authorized  by  any  other  law,  rule, regulation or certification. The
     3  provisions of this act shall  not  apply  to  any  activity  authorized,
     4  pursuant to statute, rule or regulation, to be performed by a registered
     5  professional  nurse  in a hospital as defined in article twenty-eight of
     6  the public health law.

     7    § 3. The commissioner of education is  authorized  to  promulgate  all
     8  rules and regulations necessary for the implementation of this act.
     9    §  4.  This act shall take effect on the three hundred sixty-fifth day
    10  after it shall have become a law.