STATE OF NEW YORK
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6645
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 11, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. STAVISKY -- 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 allowing for a limited
permit to be obtained to practice as a chiropractor
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 6557
2 to read as follows:
3 § 6557. Limited permits. 1. The department shall issue a limited
4 permit to an applicant who meets all requirements for eligibility and
5 admission to the chiropractic part III clinical competence licensing
6 examination.
7 2. All practice of chiropractic conducted under a limited permit shall
8 be under the supervision of a licensed chiropractor or other licensed
9 medical provider in a public hospital, an incorporated hospital or clin-
10 ic, a licensed proprietary hospital, a licensed nursing home, a public
11 health agency, a recognized public or non-public school setting, the
12 office of a licensed chiropractor, or in the civil service of the state
13 or political subdivision thereof.
14 3. Limited permits shall be valid for a period of one year and the
15 department may, for justifiable cause, renew a limited permit provided
16 that no applicant shall practice under any limited permit for more than
17 a total of two years.
18 4. Supervision of a permittee by a licensed chiropractor shall be
19 on-site supervision and not necessarily direct personal supervision.
20 5. The fee for each limited permit and for each renewal shall be fifty
21 dollars.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11110-01-1