Senate Bill S6717A

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Allows for a certain amount of required clinical training and competency to be completed through simulation experience

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S6717 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7767
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6905, 6906 & 6910, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S447, A3076

2021-S6717 - Summary

Allows for at least one-third of required clinical training and competency for licensing as a registered professional nurse, licensed practical nurse, and nurse practitioner to be completed through simulation experience.

2021-S6717 - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6717 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6717
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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 certain
   amount of required clinical training and competency  to  be  completed
   through simulation experience

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Article 130 of the education law, as added by  chapter  987
 of  the laws of 1971, is amended by adding a new subarticle 5 to read as
 follows:
              SUBARTICLE 5. CLINICAL TRAINING AND COMPETENCY.
 SECTION 6518. CLINICAL TRAINING AND COMPETENCY.
   § 6518. CLINICAL TRAINING AND COMPETENCY.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY  OTHER
 LAW,  RULE  OR  REGULATION  TO THE CONTRARY, FOR THOSE PROFESSIONS UNDER
 THIS TITLE THAT REQUIRE A SUPERVISED CLINICAL TRAINING, CLINICAL  EDUCA-
 TION  OR  CLINICAL CONTINUING COMPETENCY COMPONENT, OR THE EQUIVALENT AS
 DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT, FOR INITIAL LICENSURE OR LICENSE  RENEWAL,
 THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL  BE  AUTHORIZED TO PERMIT AT LEAST ONE-THIRD OF
 SUCH CLINICAL TRAINING TO  BE  OBTAINED  THROUGH  SIMULATION  EXPERIENCE
 ACCEPTABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT AND PURSUANT TO REGULATION. NOTHING IN THIS
 SECTION  SHALL  PROHIBIT  THE DEPARTMENT FROM ALLOWING AN INSTITUTION OF
 POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION TO  PROVIDE  GREATER  THAN  ONE-THIRD  OF  SUCH
 TRAINING THROUGH SIMULATION EXPERIENCE UPON APPLICATION BY THAT INSTITU-
 TION IN SUCH FORM AS THE DEPARTMENT SHALL REQUIRE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11455-01-1



              

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2021-S6717A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7767
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6905, 6906 & 6910, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S447, A3076

2021-S6717A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for at least one-third of required clinical training and competency for licensing as a registered professional nurse, licensed practical nurse, and nurse practitioner to be completed through simulation experience.

2021-S6717A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6717A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  6717--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. STAVISKY, GALLIVAN, HARCKHAM, KENNEDY -- read twice
   and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee
   on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on  Higher  Educa-
   tion 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 allowing for a certain
   amount of required clinical training and competency for licensing as a
   registered professional nurse, licensed  practical  nurse,  and  nurse
   practitioner to be completed through simulation experience
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6905  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  380  of  the  laws  of 2018, is amended to read as
 follows:
   (2) Education: have received an education, and a diploma or degree  in
 professional nursing, in accordance with the commissioner's regulations,
 and  in  order  to  continue  to  maintain  registration as a registered
 professional nurse in New York  state,  have  attained  a  baccalaureate
 degree  or  higher  in  nursing within ten years of initial licensure in
 accordance with the commissioner's regulations, AND HAVE PARTICIPATED IN
 SUPERVISED CLINICAL TRAINING, CLINICAL EDUCATION, OR THE EQUIVALENT,  AS
 DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PERMIT ONE-THIRD OF
 SUCH  CLINICAL  TRAINING  TO  BE  OBTAINED THROUGH SIMULATION EXPERIENCE
 ACCEPTABLE TO THE DEPARTMENT AND PURSUANT TO REGULATION. NOTHING IN THIS
 SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT THE DEPARTMENT FROM ALLOWING AN EDUCATION PROGRAM
 TO PROVIDE GREATER THAN ONE-THIRD OF SUCH  TRAINING  THROUGH  SIMULATION
 EXPERIENCE  UPON  APPLICATION  BY  THAT  INSTITUTION IN SUCH FORM AS THE
 DEPARTMENT SHALL REQUIRE. The department, in its discretion, may issue a
 conditional registration to a licensee who fails to complete the  bacca-
 laureate degree but who agrees to meet the additional requirement within
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11455-02-2
              

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