NY State Senate Bill 2025-S2360

Senate Bill S2360

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

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2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A1220
Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §6902, Ed L; amd Part C §8, Chap 57 of 2022
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S6800, A6445

2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to supervision by certain nurse practitioners; makes certain provisions permanent relating to nurse practitioners.

2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2360

SPONSOR: RIVERA
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the education law, in relation to supervision by certain
nurse practitioners; and to amend part C of chapter 57 of the laws of
2022 amending the education law relating to modernizing nurse practi-
tioners, in relation to making certain provisions permanent

 
PURPOSE:

Makes permanent the 2022 amendments to the Nurse Practitioner Moderniza-
tion Act; and continues the obligation of newly certified nurse practi-
tioners ("NP") to maintain written practice agreements, provided, howev-
er, that junior NPs would be permitted to collaborate with a licensed
physician or an experienced NP.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends section 6902 of the Education Law, as it relates to the
definition of practice of nursing, to clarify that newly certified NPs

may enter into the required written practice agreement with either a
qualified physician or an experienced NP.

Section 2 amends section 8 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022,
as it relates to the effective date, to ensure that the changes to the
nurse practitioner authorizing statutes are made permanent.

Section 3 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

To increase access to health care services and eliminate artificial
administrative barriers to consumer care, as part of the 2014 budget,
the State adopted the Nurse Practitioner Modernization Act (NPMA).  The
NPMA, among other things:

(i) eliminated the requirement that NPs with at least 3,600 hours of
practice maintain a Written Practice Agreement or Written Practice
Protocols, provided that the experienced NP maintains a collaborative
relationship with one or more licensed physicians qualified to collab-
orate in the specialty involved or a hospital; and

(ii) required that the State Education Department (SED) issue a report,
in consultation with DOH, regarding the law's implementation and offer
recommendations.

The joint SED-DOH report released in late November 2018 summarized the
law, described how it was implemented by SED, and included several
"Findings and Recommendations." Recognizing the importance of those
recommendations, further revisions were made to the NPMA as part of the
2022 budget but had a two-year sunset clause. Those changes, which in no
way altered the NP scope of practice, but did affect their ability to be
certified, would be made permanent through this legislation.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2023-2024: S6800 Rivera / A6445 Paulin
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill shall take effect immediately.

2025-S2360 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2360
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- 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 supervision by certain
   nurse practitioners; and to amend part C of chapter 57 of the laws  of
   2022  amending the education law relating to modernizing nurse practi-
   tioners, in relation to making certain provisions permanent
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 3 of
 section 6902 of the education law, as amended by section 2 of part D  of
 chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) The practice of registered professional nursing by a nurse practi-
 tioner,  certified  under  section six thousand nine hundred ten of this
 article, may include the diagnosis of illness  and  physical  conditions
 and  the  performance  of  therapeutic  and corrective measures within a
 specialty area of practice, in collaboration with a  licensed  physician
 OR  NURSE  PRACTITIONER  PRACTICING  PURSUANT  TO  PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION,  qualified  to  collaborate  in  the  specialty   involved,
 provided  such services are performed in accordance with a written prac-
 tice agreement and written practice protocols  except  as  permitted  by
 paragraph  (b) of this subdivision. The written practice agreement shall
 include explicit provisions  for  the  resolution  of  any  disagreement
 between the collaborating physician and the nurse practitioner regarding
 a  matter of diagnosis or treatment that is within the scope of practice
 of both. To the extent the practice agreement does not so provide,  then
 the collaborating physician's diagnosis or treatment shall prevail.
   §  2.  Section 8 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, amending
 the education  law  relating  to  modernizing  nurse  practitioners,  as
 amended  by  section  1  of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2024, is
 amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03723-01-5
 S. 2360                             2

 
   § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
 however,  that  sections  one, two, [three, four,] six and seven of this
 act shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, 2026.
   § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.

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