New York State Register

Subject: Nurse practitioners (NPs), athletic trainers, and extra class athletic activities. Purpose: To authorize NPs to evaluate students for concussion or sudden cardiac arrest and to clarify athletic trainers are licensed.

Subject: Supplementary Certificate and Supplementary Bilingual Educa- tion Extension Requirements. Purpose: Provide flexibility for Supplementary Certificate/Supplementary Bilingual Education Extension reqs. due to influx of students

Subject: Shared pharmacy services. Purpose: To conform the Commissioner’s regulations with Chapter 491 of the Laws of 2024.

Subject: State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. Purpose: Ensure that PSPB membership is consistent with regulatory requirements, revises full-time experience requirement for members.

Subject: Experience requirements for speech-language pathology. Purpose: To align NY’s experience requirements for speech-language pathology with national standards.

Subject: State Financial Aid Eligibility. Purpose: To revise eligibility criteria for state financial aid.

Subject: Administration of the grade 5 science assessment. Purpose: To reflect that the administration of the Elementary-level sci- ence test has moved from grade 4 to grade 5.

Subject: Licensure requirements for certified public accountants in New York State. Purpose: To implement Chapter 530 of the Laws of 2025 and make other technical amendments.

Subject: Shared pharmacy services. Purpose: To conform the Commissioner’s regulations with chapter 491 of the Laws of 2024.

Subject: State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. Purpose: Ensure that PSPB membership is consistent with regulatory requirements, revises full-time experience requirement for members.

Subject: Medical Aid in Dying Physician Reporting Requirements. Purpose: To establish reporting requirements for physicians who use MAID so that the Department can determine utilization and compliance.

Subject: Transferring of Prescriptions by Pharmacists. Purpose: Require pharmacists and pharmacies to transfer a patient’s entire prescription, including all authorized refills, upon request.

Subject: Requirements for Coaches of Interscholastic Athletic Teams. Purpose: Update outdated coaching license regulations, simplify licens- ing, standardize education requirements to reduce burdens and improve consistency.

Subject: Receivership under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Ac- countability System. Purpose: To align Receivership support under the ESSA accountability system with the Department’s goals of building leadership and systems for continuous improvement.

Subject: Registration requirements for certain teacher preparation programs that focus on literacy instruction and corresponding certification requirements. Purpose: To ensure that teacher candidates are prepared to teach evidence- based literacy instruction.

Subject: Temporary charitable practice authorizations. Purpose: To establish a Temporary Charitable Practice authorization to permit qualified out-of-state licensees to participate in charitable service initiatives in New York to address unmet professional service needs and improve access to care for underserved populations.

Subject: Athletic Placement Process (APP) and Use of the Tanner Sexual Maturity Scale. Purpose: To update the APP to ensure that health examinations and physi- cal fitness requirements are relevant and appropriate.

Subject: Regulation of Complaints, Hearing Requests, and Hearing Requirements in Disciplinary Proceedings in the Professions. Purpose: To resolve the obsolete address issue by permitting offices to update forms without amending the regulation each time.

Subject: Transferring of Prescriptions by Pharmacists. Purpose: Require pharmacists and pharmacies to transfer a patient’s entire prescription, including all authorized refills, upon request.

Subject: Special education impartial hearing officers (IHOs). Purpose: To amend the definition of an IHO and to clarify the IHO com- plaint process.

Subject: Supervision of physical therapist assistants. Purpose: To implement Chapter 549 by updating on-site supervision requirements.

Subject: Supplementary Certificate and Supplementary Bilingual Educa- tion Extension Requirements. Purpose: Provide flexibility for Supplementary Certificate/Supplementary Bilingual Education Extension regulations due to influx of students.

Subject: Epinephrine devices. Purpose: Removal of the phrase epinephrine auto-injector and replace- ment with epinephrine device pursuant to Chapter 502 of 2025.

Subject: Statewide protocols for diapering and toileting. Purpose: To implement chapter 361 of the Laws of 2024.

Subject: Shared pharmacy services. Purpose: To conform the Commissioner’s regulations with Chapter 491 of the Laws of 2024.

Subject: State Professional Standards and Practices Board for Teaching. Purpose: Ensure that PSPB membership is consistent with regulatory requirements, revises full-time experience requirement for members.

Subject: Experience requirements for speech-language pathology. Purpose: To align NY’s experience requirements for speech-language pathology with national standards.

Subject: State Financial Aid Eligibility. Purpose: To align the Commissioner’s regulations with chapter 606.

Subject: Examination requirements for optometry licensure. Purpose: To align the examination requirements for licensure with the National Board of Examiners in Optometry.

Subject: Establishing a program review process for teacher preparation programs. Purpose: Strengthen quality assurance of teacher preparation programs and determine if programs meet pedagogical core requirements.

Subject: Automated external defibrillators and school cardiac-emergency response plans. Purpose: To ensure the regulations are in compliance with chapter 189 of the Laws of 2025 and chapter 422 of the Laws of 2025.

Subject: Part-Time Study for Undergraduate Students. Purpose: Conform regulations to 2025-26 Enacted State Budget changes to the Part-Time Tuition Assistance Program and expand eligibility.

Subject: Registered pharmacy technicians’ practice settings. Purpose: To implement chapter 543 of the Laws of 2025.

Subject: Degree requirements for registered professional nurses. Purpose: To implement chapters 502 of the Laws of 2017 and chapter 380 of the Laws of 2018.

Subject: Athletic Placement Process (APP) and Use of the Tanner Sexual Maturity Scale. Purpose: To update the APP to ensure that health examinations and physi- cal fitness requirements are relevant and appropriate.

Subject: Administration of the grade 5 science assessment. Purpose: To reflect that the administration of the elementary-level science test has moved from grade 4 to grade 5.

Subject: Licensure requirements for certified public accountants in New York State. Purpose: To implement chapter 530 of the Laws of 2025 and make other technical amendments.

Subject: Statewide protocols for diapering and toileting. Purpose: To implement chapter 361 of the Laws of 2024.

Subject: Registered pharmacy technicians’ practice settings. Purpose: To implement chapter 543 of the Laws of 2025.

Subject: Professional learning plans. Purpose: To implement Education Law § 3012-e(5)(a)(vii) which requires that LEAs have a process for each classroom teacher and building principal to receive formal support for professional growth annually, along with ad- ditional professional learning requirements for certain groups of educators.

Subject: Personal finance education and climate education. Purpose: Ensuring personal finance education and climate education is provided to students in grades kindergarten through 12.

Subject: Comprehensive library board policies. Purpose: To strengthen library governance and accountability across New York’s public and association libraries.

Subject: Transferring of Prescriptions by Pharmacists. Purpose: Require pharmacists and pharmacies to transfer a patient’s entire prescription, including all authorized refills, upon request.

Subject: Regulation of Complaints, Hearing Requests, and Hearing Requirements in Disciplinary Proceedings in the Professions. Purpose: To resolve the obsolete address issue by permitting offices to update forms without amending the regulation each time.

Subject: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cyberse- curity Framework (CSF). Purpose: To update the regulations referencing an older version of the NIST CSF and to update an outdated retention policy.

Subject: Special education impartial hearing officers (IHOs). Purpose: To amend the definition of an IHO and to clarify the IHO com- plaint process.

Subject: Epinephrine Devices. Purpose: Removal of the phrase “epinephrine auto-injector” and replace- ment with “epinephrine device” pursuant to chapter 502 of L. 2025.