STATE OF NEW YORK
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5665
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 10, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- 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 the certification of
dietitians and nutritionists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 8001 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a
4 certified dietitian or certified nutritionist may prescribe, order,
5 write, review, evaluate, monitor and manage therapeutic diets, including
6 enteral and parenteral nutrition, in a hospital, including diagnostic
7 center, treatment center, or hospital-based outpatient department, resi-
8 dential health care facility or nursing home or any other facility as
9 defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the public health law
10 when competency is determined by the medical director or governing body
11 of such facility.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition and/or
14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
16 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11526-01-9
