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Assembly Bill A5622

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to license requirements for professional geologists; repealer

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2025-A5622 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6482
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §7206-b sub 2, amd §7206-b, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9936, S9455

2025-A5622 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that the education requirements to be licensed as a professional geologist may be partially substituted by practical experience; relates to the issuance of an identification card as a geologist in training.

2025-A5622 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5622
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. EACHUS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to the licensure of a
   professional geologist; and to repeal subdivision 2 of section  7206-b
   of the education law relating thereto

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 7206-b of  the  education  law  is
 REPEALED  and  subdivisions  3 and 4 are renumbered subdivisions 2 and 3
 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows:
   4. APPLICANTS WHO FILE WITH THE DEPARTMENT WITHIN  TWO  YEARS  OF  THE
 EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF THIS SUBDIVISION AN APPLICATION AND FEE REQUIREMENTS
 PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (G) OF SUBDIVISION ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION
 AND  WHO,  AT SUCH TIME OR ANYTIME THEREAFTER, DEMONSTRATE TO THE SATIS-
 FACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT THAT THEY HAVE TWELVE YEARS OF PRACTICAL EXPE-
 RIENCE IN WORK SATISFACTORY TO THE BOARD MAY SUBSTITUTE SUCH  EXPERIENCE
 FOR  THE  DEGREE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN PARAGRAPHS (B)
 AND (C) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT EACH
 FULL YEAR OF STUDY IN GEOLOGY DEEMED SATISFACTORY TO THE DEPARTMENT MAY,
 AT THE DISCRETION OF THE BOARD, BE ACCEPTED IN LIEU OF UP TO  TWO  YEARS
 OF THE REQUIRED TWELVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 7206-b of the education law, as added by
 chapter 475 of the laws of 2014 and as renumbered by section one of this
 act, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  For an identification card as [an "intern geologist"] A "GEOLOGIST
 IN TRAINING", an applicant shall fulfill the requirements of subdivision
 one of this section, except those in paragraphs  (c)  and  (e)  of  such
 subdivision,  provided  that  admission  to the examination may be given
 when the applicant is within twenty credits of  the  completion  of  the
 requirements  of  the bachelor's degree or higher as prescribed in para-
 graph (b) of subdivision one of this  section[,  or  has  completed  the

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03831-01-5

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