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NY S07320
Bill
Status
12/7/2018
Primary Sponsor
John Flanagan
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AI Summary
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Adds a new item to the nursing program evaluation commission's mandate requiring recommendations on the impact of requiring nurses to achieve a baccalaureate degree in less time than legally required as a condition of employment.
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Authorizes the Department of Education to issue temporary educational exemptions to registered professional nurses unable to complete a baccalaureate degree due to lack of access to educational programs.
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Requires nurses seeking a temporary educational exemption to provide evidence of applying to at least two baccalaureate programs and being denied access to both due to limited seats, corroborated by the institutions.
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Limits temporary educational exemptions to a single two-year period, with the same fee as triennial registration, and makes them mutually exclusive with conditional registration options.
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Extends the effective date for section three of the nursing law amendments from eighteen months to thirty months after the act becomes law.
Legislative Description
Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing and to the nursing program evaluation commission; authorizes the department to issue a temporary educational exemption; requires the commission to make recommendations on the impact of requirements for achievement of a baccalaureate degree in any lesser period of time than required by law as condition to maintaining employment.
Last Action
SIGNED CHAP.380
12/7/2018