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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         5356--D
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                      May 11, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens. YOUNG, GRISANTI -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher  Education
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the  Committee  on
          Higher Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee

          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to  said  committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
 
        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 6911
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6911. 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 which 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  in a program accredited by a national body recognized by
    13  the department or determined by the department to be the equivalent; and
    14  (ii) submit evidence of current certification or  recertification  by  a
    15  national certifying body, recognized by the department;

    16    (d)  Fees: pay a fee to the department of fifty dollars for an initial
    17  certificate authorizing nurse anesthesia practice and a triennial regis-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11445-14-2
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     1  tration fee of  thirty  dollars.  After  a  certified  registered  nurse
     2  anesthetist's  initial  registration,  registration  under  this section
     3  shall be coterminous with the certified registered  nurse  anesthetist's
     4  registration as a registered professional nurse.
     5    2.  Only  a  person  certified  under this section shall use the title

     6  "certified registered nurse anesthetist".
     7    3. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any  act  author-
     8  ized by any other law, rule, regulation or certification.
     9    4.  The commissioner is authorized to promulgate regulations solely to
    10  implement the certification process set forth  in  this  section.    The
    11  commissioner  is  not authorized to promulgate regulations to define the
    12  practice of a certified registered nurse anesthetist.  The  commissioner
    13  is  authorized  to  promulgate  regulations  limited only to the certif-
    14  ication provisions of this section to issue a certificate.   Nothing  in
    15  this  section  shall  be construed to alter or define the scope of prac-
    16  tice.

    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law, except that subdivision 2 of section 6911 of
    19  the education law, as added by section one of this act shall take effect
    20  three years after this act shall have become a law.