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NY A05622

Bill

Status

Introduced

2/18/2025

Primary Sponsor

Christopher Eachus

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Origin

Assembly

2025-2026 General Assembly

AI Summary

  • Allows applicants who file within two years of the law's effective date and have 12 years of practical geological experience to substitute that experience for the standard degree and experience requirements for professional geologist licensure

  • Permits each full year of geology study to count as up to two years toward the 12-year experience requirement, at the board's discretion

  • Renames the "intern geologist" identification card to "geologist in training"

  • Removes the practical experience completion option as a pathway to early examination admission for the geologist in training identification card

  • Takes effect 180 days after becoming law, with immediate authorization for the department to develop implementing regulations

Legislative Description

Provides that the education requirements to be licensed as a professional geologist may be partially substituted by practical experience; relates to the issuance of an identification card as a geologist in training.

Last Action

substituted by s6482

6/10/2025

Committee Referrals

Rules6/6/2025
Ways and Means5/28/2025
Higher Education2/18/2025

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