Exempts an individual licensed as a dentist and a physician who engages in the practice of dentistry from requirements for office-based surgery directed at physicians and physician's assistants.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3845--A
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 2, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. DUANE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to office-based
surgery
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 230-d of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 365 of the laws of 2007, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (i) "Licensee" shall mean an individual licensed or otherwise author-
5 ized under articles one hundred thirty-one or one hundred thirty-one-B
6 of the education law except it shall not include an individual licensed
7 under both articles one hundred thirty-one and one hundred thirty-three
8 of the education law who is practicing dentistry in a professional
9 service corporation or in any other entity authorized only to engage in
10 the practice of dentistry.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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