Senate Bill S1118

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires that consumer representatives be appointed to state boards for the professions

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S1118 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Ed L, generally
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S1775
2011-2012: S4883
2013-2014: S3025
2017-2018: S4123

2015-S1118 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that consumer representatives be appointed to state boards for the professions.

2015-S1118 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S1118 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1118

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             January 8, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  requiring  consumer
  representatives to be appointed to state boards for the professions

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6508  of  the  education  law,  as
amended  by  chapter  866  of  the  laws  of 1980, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. A board for each profession shall be  appointed  by  the  board  of
regents  on  the  recommendation  of the commissioner for the purpose of
assisting the board of regents and the department on matters of  profes-
sional  licensing,  practice, and conduct. The composition of each board
shall be as prescribed in  the  article  relating  to  each  profession,
EXCEPT  AS  PROVIDED  IN SUBDIVISION ONE-A OF THIS SECTION.  Within each
board a committee on licensing may be appointed by the board chairman.
  [Except as provided in paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the  member-
ship  of  each  professional  licensing  board shall be increased by one
member, and each such board shall have at  least  one  public  represen-
tative  who  shall  be selected by the board of regents from the general
public.
  a. The membership of the professional licensing boards  created  under
sections  sixty-five  hundred  twenty-three,  sixty-eight  hundred four,
sixty-nine hundred three, and seventy-four hundred three of this chapter
shall be increased by two members, and each such  board  shall  have  at
least  two public representatives, who shall be selected by the board of
regents from the general public.
  b. For the purposes of this title, a "public representative" shall  be
a  person  who  is  a consumer of services provided by those licensed or
otherwise supervised or regulated by the boards created hereunder, and]

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03076-01-5

              

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