New York A 10606: Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia

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A10606 Summary:

BILL NOA10606 

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SAME ASSAME AS S02302

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SPONSORHyndman

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COSPNSRColton

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §6902, add §6913, Ed L

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Establishes certification procedures for the profession of nurse anesthesia; provides for the issuance of a certification to practice as a certified registered nurse anesthetist upon the filing of an application, having a license as a registered professional nurse, having the appropriate educational requirements and paying the fifty dollar initial certification fee and the triennial thirty dollar registration fee.

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BILL NOA10606 

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03/13/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10606

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 13, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the profession of
 nurse anesthesia

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that
 2 certified registered nurse anesthetists are highly educated and trained
 3 advanced practice nurses who hold a national professional certification,
 4 and whose competency in the professional practice of nurse anesthesia in
 5 hospitals, free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, clinics, profes-
 6 sional offices and other facilities is well known. Nurse anesthetists
 7 are integral to the continued professional delivery of services in such
 8 health care facilities throughout the state.
 9 The legislature further finds that statutory recognition of nurse
 10 anesthetists will further enhance patient safety by codifying their
 11 professional scope of practice that is currently governed in this state
 12 by regulations promulgated pursuant to the public health law in the case
 13 of hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers.
 14 The legislature also finds that while nurse anesthetists are advanced
 15 practice nurses, licensed as registered professional nurses under arti-
 16 cle 139 of the education law, no provision of this act is meant to
 17 limit, diminish or in any way impinge upon the practice of the profes-
 18 sion of nursing as a registered professional nurse under such article.
 19 Therefore, the legislature hereby declares that, due to the intrinsic
 20 nature of the administration of anesthesia services, the integral part
 21 that certified registered nurse anesthetists play in the safe delivery
 22 of such services and the need to protect and enhance patient safety in
 23 all health care facilities, it is in the interest of the people of this
 24 state to recognize the national professional certification of registered
 25 nurse anesthetists and that the existing scope of practice of nurse
 26 anesthesia, as currently practiced in this state, be codified in stat-
 27 ute.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06268-01-5

 A. 10606 2

 1 § 2. Section 6902 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
 3 4. (a) The practice of registered professional nursing by a certified
 4 registered nurse anesthetist, certified under section sixty-nine hundred
 5 thirteen of this article may include the practice of nurse anesthesia.
 6 Nurse anesthesia includes: the administration of anesthesia and anes-
 7 thesia related care to patients; preanesthetics evaluation and prepara-
 8 tion; anesthetic induction, maintenance and emergence; post anesthesia
 9 care; perianesthetics and clinical support functions; and pain manage-
 10 ment, in collaboration with a licensed physician qualified by law to
 11 determine the need for anesthesia services, provided such services are
 12 performed in accordance with a written practice agreement and written
 13 practice protocols. The written practice agreement shall include explic-
 14 it provisions for the resolution of any disagreement between the collab-
 15 orating physician and the certified regi