A 5622: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5622 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 7206-b of the education law is 2 REPEALED and subdivisions 3 and 4 are renumbered subdivisions 2 and 3 3 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows: 4 4. Applicants who file with the department within two years of the 5 effective date of this subdivision an application and fee requirements 6 pursuant to paragraphs (a) and (g) of subdivision one of this section 7 and who, at such time or anytime thereafter, demonstrate to the satis- 8 faction of the department that they have twelve years of practical expe- 9 rience in work satisfactory to the board may substitute such experience 10 for the degree and experience requirements specified in paragraphs (b) 11 and (c) of subdivision one of this section; provided, however, that each 12 full year of study in geology deemed satisfactory to the department may, 13 at the discretion of the board, be accepted in lieu of up to two years 14 of the required twelve years of experience. 15 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 7206-b of the education law, as added by 16 chapter 475 of the laws of 2014 and as renumbered by section one of this 17 act, is amended to read as follows: 18 2. For an identification card as [an "intern geologist"] a "geologist 19 in training", an applicant shall fulfill the requirements of subdivision 20 one of this section, except those in paragraphs (c) and (e) of such 21 subdivision, provided that admission to the examination may be given 22 when the applicant is within twenty credits of the completion of the 23 requirements of the bachelor's degree or higher as prescribed in para- 24 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 
 A. 5622 2 1 practical experience requirement of subdivision two of this section]. 2 The fee for the examination and identification card as [an "intern geol- 3 ogist"] a "geologist in training" shall be seventy dollars and the fee 4 for each reexamination shall be seventy dollars. 5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 6 it shall have become a law and shall apply to applications for licensure 7 as a professional geologist on or after such effective date. Effective 8 immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regu- 9 lation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective 10 date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective 11 date.