Provides that limited permits to practice medicine may be renewed biennially; expands the types of facilities where permitees may practice; authorizes permits to be renewed at the discretion of the department of education; provides that such department shall not deny a limited permit based solely on the previous number of authorizations of such permits issued to the applicant.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7002--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 16, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. GOUNARDES, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, SEPULVEDA -- 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
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to limited permits to
practice medicine
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 6525 of the education law,
2 as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, are amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. Limit of practice. A permittee shall be authorized to practice
5 medicine only under the supervision of a licensed physician and only in:
6 (a) a public, voluntary, or proprietary hospital;
7 (b) a patient care facility operated by or for any federally recog-
8 nized American Indian tribe, a prison, a school, or a university;
9 (c) a community health center or federally qualified health center; or
10 (d) a private office or clinic with at least four practicing supervis-
11 ing licensed physicians, operating on a two to one supervision ratio of
12 two permittees per physician.
13 3. Duration. A limited permit shall be valid for two years and may be
14 renewed biennially. [It may be renewed biennially at the discretion of
15 the department] Permits may be renewed at the discretion of the depart-
16 ment, provided, however, that the department shall not deny a limited
17 permit based solely on the previous number of authorizations that the
18 department has issued to the applicant.
19 § 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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