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                                   4528
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 16, 2023
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 Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to adopting the psychol-
   ogy interjurisdictional compact (Part A); to amend the  public  health
   law,  in  relation  to  adopting  the recognition of emergency medical
   services personnel licensure interstate compact (Part B); and to amend
   the education law, in relation  to  adopting  the  counseling  compact
   model legislation (Part C)
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act enacts into law components of legislation relating
 to enacting the psychology interjurisdictional compact, the  recognition
 of  emergency  medical  services personnel licensure interstate compact,
 and the counseling compact model legislation. Each component  is  wholly
 contained  within  a Part identified as Parts A through C. The effective
 date for each particular provision contained within  such  Part  is  set
 forth  in  the  last  section of such Part. Any provision in any section
 contained within a Part, including the effective date of the Part, which
 makes reference to a section "of this act", when used in connection with
 that particular component, shall be deemed to  mean  and  refer  to  the
 corresponding section of the Part in which it is found. Section three of
 this act sets forth the general effective date of this act.
 
                                  PART A
 
   Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 7608
 to read as follows:
   § 7608. PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL  COMPACT.  NOTWITHSTANDING  ANY
 LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE PSYCHOLOGY INTERJURISDICTIONAL COMPACT IS HERE-
 BY  ADOPTED AND ENACTED INTO LAW AND ENTERED INTO WITH ALL JURISDICTIONS
 LEGALLY JOINING THEREIN.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04784-01-3
              

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   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
                                  PART B
 
   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
 3033 to read as follows:
   § 3033. RECOGNITION OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL  LICENSURE
 INTERSTATE  COMPACT. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW TO THE CONTRARY, THE RECOG-
 NITION OF EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL  LICENSURE  INTERSTATE
 COMPACT  (REPLICA)  IS HEREBY ENACTED INTO LAW AND ENTERED INTO WITH ALL
 JURISDICTIONS LEGALLY JOINING THEREIN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
                                  PART C
 
   Section  1.  The education law is amended by adding a new section 8413
 to read as follows:
   § 8413. COUNSELING COMPACT. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY LAW TO  THE  CONTRARY,
 THE  COUNSELING  COMPACT MODEL LEGISLATION, APPROVED ON DECEMBER FOURTH,
 TWO THOUSAND TWENTY BY THE ADVISORY GROUP FORMED BY THE NATIONAL  CENTER
 FOR  INTERSTATE  COMPACTS,  IS  HEREBY ENACTED INTO LAW AND ENTERED INTO
 WITH ALL JURISDICTIONS LEGALLY JOINING THEREIN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
   § 2. Severability clause. If any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivi-
 sion,  section  or  part  of  this act shall be adjudged by any court of
 competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment  shall  not  affect,
 impair,  or  invalidate  the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in
 its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph,  subdivision,  section
 or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judg-
 ment shall have been rendered. It is hereby declared to be the intent of
 the  legislature  that  this  act  would  have been enacted even if such
 invalid provisions had not been included herein.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 the  applicable effective date of Parts A through C of this act shall be
 as specifically set forth in the last section of such Parts.