Bill Text: NY A08363 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the use of approved programs at foreign dental schools to satisfy the experience requirement for licensure as a dentist.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-29 - print number 8363a [A08363 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08363-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8363--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    December 13, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. WOERNER, McDONALD, ANGELINO, MAGNARELLI, DeSTEFA-
          NO,  LUPARDO,  DICKENS, LUNSFORD, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  SIMON -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Higher  Education  -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education
          in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requirements  for
          licensure as a dentist

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivisions 3 and 6 of section 6604 of the education  law,
     2  subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 613 of the laws of 2022 and subdivi-
     3  sion  6  as  amended  by chapter 669 of the laws of 2022, are amended to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (3) Experience: have experience  satisfactory  to  the  board  and  in
     6  accordance with the commissioner's regulations, provided that:
     7    (a)  such  experience  shall  consist  of satisfactory completion of a
     8  postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program,  of
     9  at  least  one year's duration, in a hospital or dental facility accred-
    10  ited for teaching purposes by a national accrediting  body  approved  by
    11  the  department, provided, further that any such residency program shall
    12  include a formal outcome assessment evaluation of the resident's  compe-
    13  tence to practice dentistry acceptable to the department; or
    14    (b)  notwithstanding  paragraph (a) of this subdivision, for an appli-
    15  cant with a minimum of three years of full-time dental practice  experi-
    16  ence,  or  the  equivalent  thereof,  within  the five years immediately
    17  preceding the applicant's application and in the state or  country  from
    18  which  such  applicant  received  a  license to practice dentistry, such
    19  experience may consist of satisfactory completion of a  minimum  of  one
    20  year  of  either:  (i) experience as a full-time faculty member employed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13480-05-4
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     1  at  an approved New York state school of dentistry,  or  (ii)  full-time
     2  experience,  or  the  equivalent  thereof,  as a general practice dental
     3  preceptee in a preceptorship program under the supervision of a licensed
     4  dentist  in   an area   which   has  been designated  a  federal  dental
     5  health professions shortage area, provided  further  that  the  licensed
     6  dentist  who supervises such a preceptee shall be designated the precep-
     7  tor dentist, have practiced for at least five years immediately  preced-
     8  ing  assuming a preceptorship, and have under his or her supervision not
     9  more  than  one  full-time  preceptee  nor  more  than   two   part-time
    10  preceptees;
    11    (6) Citizenship or immigration status: be a United States citizen or a
    12  noncitizen  lawfully  admitted  for  permanent  residence  in the United
    13  States; provided, however, that the board of regents may grant  a  three
    14  year  waiver  for  a  noncitizen  to  practice in an area which has been
    15  designated a federal dental health  professions  shortage  area,  except
    16  that  the  board  of  regents  may  grant an additional extension not to
    17  exceed six years to a noncitizen to enable him or her to secure citizen-
    18  ship or permanent resident status, provided such status is being active-
    19  ly pursued; and provided further that the board of regents may grant  an
    20  additional  three-year waiver, and at its expiration, an extension for a
    21  period not to exceed six additional years, for the  holder  of  an  H-1b
    22  visa, an O-1 visa, or an equivalent or successor visa thereto;
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.