New York A 4985: Allows any qualified person to apply for voter registration and enrollment by application made with an application for any hunting or fishing license

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A04985 Summary:

BILL NOA04985A

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SAME ASSAME AS S05867-A

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SPONSORBichotte Hermelyn (MS)

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COSPNSRWeprin, Davila, Seawright, Taylor, Griffin, Santabarbara, Burroughs, Sayegh, Williams, Conrad

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MLTSPNSRSimon

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Amd §§6902, 6522, 6903 & 6909, add §6913, Ed L

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Relates to the certification of registered nurse anesthetists; provides that for such certification an applicant shall file an application, be licensed as a registered professional nurse, have satisfactorily completed educational preparation for the administration of anesthesia by an accredited entity and pay a fee; specifies who may represent themself as a registered nurse anesthetist.

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BILL NOA04985A

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02/10/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

03/18/2026amend and recommit to higher education

03/18/2026print number 4985a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4985--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 10, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, WEPRIN, DAVILA, SEAWRIGHT,
 TAYLOR, GRIFFIN, SANTABARBARA, BURROUGHS, SAYEGH, WILLIAMS -- Multi-
 Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on High-
 er 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 the registration of
 nurse anesthetists

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

 1 Section 1. Section 6902 of the education law is amended by adding a
 2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
 3 4. (a) The practice of professional nursing by a registered nurse
 4 anesthetist, certified under section sixty-nine hundred thirteen of this
 5 article, shall:
 6 (i) be defined by a scope of practice to include preoperative assess-
 7 ment and evaluation, administration of anesthesia, intraoperative moni-
 8 toring and management, and postoperative care of a patient as part of a
 9 procedure in a health care facility, in the office of a dentist, oral
 10 surgeon or podiatrist who is authorized by law to administer anesthesia,
 11 in connection with office based surgery, as defined under section two
 12 hundred thirty-d of the public health law, or in a free standing ambula-
 13 tory surgical center, as defined under article twenty-eight of the
 14 public health law, to the extent authorized in accordance to credential-
 15 ing procedures approved by the governing body and medical staff of a
 16 healthcare facility, office based surgery, as defined under section two
 17 hundred thirty-d of the public health law, or free standing ambulatory
 18 surgical center, as defined under article twenty-eight of the public
 19 health law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07215-02-6

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 1 (ii) recognizing that the administration of anesthesia includes the
 2 practice of medicine, such practice shall be performed only under the
 3 supervision of a physician licensed in New York state who has completed
 4 an accredited anesthesia residency program and who is physically present
 5 and immediately available; or under the supervision of the operating
 6 physician who is physically present and qualified by the governing body
 7 and medical staff of a health care facility, free standing ambulatory
 8 surgical center, as defined under article twenty-eight of the public
 9 health law, or office based surgery, as defined under section two
 10 hundred thirty-d of the public health law, to supervise a certified
 11 registered nurse anesthetist; or under the supervision of a dentist,
 12 oral surgeon or podiatrist who is physically present and who is author-
 13 ized by law to administer anesthesia, to the extent such person is qual-
 14 ified by law, regulation, hospital appointment, or privilege granted by
 15 the governing body of a free s