STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

8439

2023-2024 Regular Sessions

IN ASSEMBLY

December 29, 2023 ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to evaluation of dental service needs

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

1 Section 1. Subdivisions 7 and 8 of section 6604 of the education law, 2 subdivision 7 as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, and subdivi- 3 sion 8 as amended by chapter 62 of the laws of 1989, are amended and a 4 new subdivision 9 is added to read as follows: 5 (7) Character: be of good moral character as determined by the depart- 6 ment; [and] 7 (8) Fees: pay a fee of two hundred twenty dollars to the department 8 for admission to a department conducted examination and for an initial 9 license, a fee of one hundred fifteen dollars for each reexamination, a 10 fee of one hundred thirty-five dollars for an initial license for 11 persons not requiring admission to a department conducted examination, 12 and a fee of two hundred ten dollars for each triennial registration 13 period[.]; and 14 (9) Evaluation of dental service needs: in conjunction with and as a 15 condition of each triennial registration, the department shall collect 16 and a dentist shall provide such information and documentation required 17 by the department, in consultation with the department of health, as 18 necessary to enable the department of health to evaluate access to need- 19 ed services in the state, including but not limited to, the locations 20 and type of settings where the dentist practices, whether such practice 21 or practices are accepting new patients, the number of pediatric Medi- 22 caid patients the dentist serves, the number of adult Medicaid patients 23 the dentist serves, and other information the department, in consulta- 24 tion with the department of health, deems relevant. The department of 25 health, in consultation with the department, shall make such data avail- 26 able in aggregate, de-identified form on a publicly accessible website. 27 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 28 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13886-01-3