STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4611
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 22, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  MURPHY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations and Govern-
          ment Operations
        AN ACT to amend the tax law, in  relation  to  establishing  a  personal
          income  tax  credit  to community-based faculty clinicians who provide
          clinical preceptorships
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  606  of  the  tax law is amended by adding a new
     2  subsection (hhh) to read as follows:
     3    (hhh) Clinical preceptorship credit. (1) General. A taxpayer who is  a
     4  community-based  faculty clinician who provides community-based instruc-
     5  tion as part of a clinical preceptorship shall be allowed  a  credit  of
     6  one  thousand dollars for each one hundred hours of such community-based
     7  instruction;  provided  that  the  credit  allowed  pursuant   to   this
     8  subsection  shall  not  exceed three thousand dollars during any taxable
     9  year.
    10    (2) Definitions. As used in this subsection:
    11    (A) The term "community-based faculty clinician" means a (i) physician
    12  licensed pursuant to article one hundred  thirty-one  of  the  education
    13  law,  (ii)  physician assistant licensed pursuant to article one hundred
    14  thirty-one-B of the education law, (iii) specialist assistant registered
    15  pursuant to article one hundred thirty-one-C of the education law,  (iv)
    16  certified  registered  nurse  anesthetist  certified  by  the  education
    17  department, (v) nurse practitioner certified pursuant to section  sixty-
    18  nine  hundred  ten  of the education law, (vi) clinical nurse specialist
    19  certified pursuant to section sixty-nine hundred eleven of the education
    20  law, or (vii) midwife licensed pursuant to article one hundred forty  of
    21  the  education  law,  who,  without the provision of any form of compen-
    22  sation therefor, provides a  clinical  preceptorship  or  preceptorships
    23  during the taxable year.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (B)  The  term  "clinical  preceptorship"  means a preceptorship for a
     2  student enrolled in a New York state based educational program  approved
     3  pursuant  to  title  eight  of  the education law to become a physician,
     4  physician assistant, specialist assistant,  certified  registered  nurse
     5  anesthetist,  nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialist or midwife,
     6  and which preceptorship provides community-based instruction  in  family
     7  medicine,  internal  medicine,  pediatrics,  obstetrics  and gynecology,
     8  emergency medicine, psychiatry or general surgery under the  supervision
     9  of a community-based faculty clinician.
    10    (3)  Application  of credit. If the amount of the credit allowed under
    11  this subsection for any taxable year exceeds the taxpayer's tax for such
    12  year, the excess will be treated as an overpayment of tax to be credited
    13  or refunded in accordance with the provisions  of  section  six  hundred
    14  eighty-six of this article; provided, however, that no interest shall be
    15  paid thereon.
    16    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    17  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.