New York A 483: Permits certain not-for-profit corporations engaged in engineering for certain conservation efforts to do business or provide professional engineering, land surveying or professional geology services in the state

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A00483 Summary:

BILL NOA00483 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05392

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SPONSORClark

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COSPNSRSeawright, Stirpe, Reyes, Gallahan, Epstein, Levenberg, Sayegh, Beephan, Woerner, Smullen, Griffin,
 Buttenschon, Lupardo

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§7209 & 7210, Ed L

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Relates to permitting certain not-for-profit corporations engaged in engineering for certain conservation efforts to do business or provide professional engineering, land surveying, or professional geology services in the state.

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BILL NOA00483 

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01/08/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 483

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. CLARK, SEAWRIGHT, STIRPE, REYES, GALLAHAN,
 EPSTEIN, LEVENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on High-
 er Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting certain
 not-for-profit corporations engaged in engineering for certain conser-
 vation efforts to do business or provide professional engineering,
 land surveying, or professional geology services in the state

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

 1 Section 1. Section 7209 of the education law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
 3 10. Nothing in this article shall prohibit a foreign not-for-profit
 4 corporation, as defined in section one hundred two of the not-for-profit
 5 corporation law, engaged in engineering for conservation efforts associ-
 6 ated with (a) tidal wetland, as defined in subdivision one of section
 7 25-0103 of the environmental conservation law, restoration, (b) freshwa-
 8 ter wetland, as defined in subdivision one of section 24-0107 of the
 9 environmental conservation law, restoration, (c) habitat restoration,
 10 (d) groundwater recharge, or (e) natural infrastructure from obtaining a
 11 certificate of authority to do business in the state of New York,
 12 provided that the business proposed to be done by such not-for-profit
 13 corporation within this state relates to the stated conservation
 14 resources and shall be conducted by a professional engineer pursuant to
 15 this article.
 16 § 2. Subdivisions 1, 2, and 3 of section 7210 of the education law,
 17 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 475 of the laws of 2014 and subdivi-
 18 sions 2 and 3 as amended by chapter 483 of the laws of 2001, are amended
 19 to read as follows:
 20 1. Domestic or foreign professional service corporations, design
 21 professional service corporations, professional service limited liabil-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02534-01-5

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 1 ity companies, foreign professional service limited liability companies,
 2 registered limited liability partnerships, New York registered foreign
 3 limited liability partnerships, foreign not-for-profit corporations, as
 4 defined in section one hundred two of the not-for-profit corporation
 5 law, engaged in engineering for conservation efforts associated with (a)
 6 tidal wetland, as defined in subdivision one of section 25-0103 of the
 7 environmental conservation law, restoration, (b) freshwater wetland, as
 8 defined in subdivision one of section 24-0107 of the environmental
 9 conservation law, restoration, (c) habitat restoration, (d) groundwater
 10 recharge, or (e) natural infrastructure, partnerships and joint enter-
 11 prises specified in subdivision four of section seventy-two hundred nine
 12 of this article, provided each of the foregoing entities is authorized
 13 to provide professional engineering, land surveying or professional
 14 geology services and general business corporations authorized to provide
 15 professional engineering or land surveying services pursuant to subdivi-
 16 sion six of section seventy-two hundred nine of this article may offer
 17 to provide or provide professional engineering, land surveying or
 18 professional