New York State Register

Subject: Student teaching requirements for registered teacher preparation programs and through the individual evaluation pathway. Purpose: To extend for one year the timeline for programs to implement the new student teaching requirements, and to make amendments to such requirements and the student teaching requirements for the individual evaluation pathway to certification.

Subject: New York State Learning Standards. Purpose: Updating to Reflect Current New York State Learning Standards.

Subject: Licensing examination and testing accommodations in the profes- sion of architecture. Purpose: To conform NYS architecture licensure requirements with national standards set by the National Council of Architectural Registra- tion Boards by amending the examination content requirements and reten- tion of credit provisions for the Architect Registration Examination and permit ESL testing accommodations.

Subject: Extending a flexibility for incidental teaching. Purpose: To extend flexibility for incidental teaching through the 2023- 2024 school year.

Subject: Employment of substitute teachers. Purpose: To make permanent substitute teaching flexibility for school districts and BOCES.

Subject: Pilot P-20 Partnerships for Principal Preparation Program. Purpose: To extend the September 30, 2022 end date of the pilot program to September 30, 2025.

Subject: Special education due process system procedures. Purpose: To implement the Department’s and the New York City Public Schools’ (NYCPS) Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with New York City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) to establish an administrative team of full-time impartial hearing officers.

Subject: Educator certification for candidates from another state or terri- tory of the United States or the District of Columbia. Purpose: To streamline the endorsement and comparable program pathways providing additional flexibility and increasing the pool of candidates.

Subject: Continuing education requirements for licensed optometrists cer- tified to prescribe and use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents. Purpose: To implement section 9 of chapter 506 of the Laws of 2021.

Subject: Indigenous Names, Mascots, and Logos. Purpose: To prohibit the use of Indigenous names, mascots, and logos by public schools.

Subject: Licensure as a clinical laboratory technologist or cytotechnolo- gist and certification as a clinical laboratory technician or histological technician. Purpose: To implement chapter 446 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Continuing education requirements for the profession of architecture. Purpose: To implement chapter 578 of the Laws of 2021.

Subject: Extensions for coordinators of work-based learning programs. Purpose: To create a new uniform ‘‘Coordinator of Work-Based Learning Programs’’ extension.

Subject: Individual arts assessment pathway to graduation. Purpose: To establish the Individual Arts Assessment Pathway to graduation.

Subject: Initial reissuance, provisional renewal, and time extension requirements. Purpose: To revise the initial reissuance, provisional renewal, and time extension requirements to ensue that educators have an opportunity to extent the validity period of their certificates during extenuating circum- stances that may prevent them from completing the requirements for the Professional or Permanent certificate.

Subject: Education requirements for licensure as a registered professional nurse and licensed practical nurse. Purpose: To permit the department to reject out-of-state nursing programs approved by the licensing authority of another state if a it is determined not to be satisfactory to the department.

Subject: Deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school coun- selor certificate. Purpose: To extend the deadline to apply and qualify for the provisional school counselor certificate for candidates who completed a registered program leading to Provisional School Counselor certification, as well as candidates who may still be matriculating in this type of program but will complete it by February 2, 2024.

Subject: Requirements for admission to the examination for licensure as an engineer. Purpose: To reflect the intent of chapter 465 of the Laws of 2021 by continuing to allow “all experience” pathway applicants to sit for the fundamentals of engineering examination.

Subject: Corporal punishment, restraint, and seclusion. Purpose: The proposed rule is necessary to clarify, streamline, and update the Regents Rules and the Commissioner’s regulations relating to corporal punishment to address the unsafe use of restraint and seclusion in schools and to ensure informed and sufficient protections; culturally responsive, strength-based and multi-tiered supports; and services and instruction that meet students’ social, emotional, behavioral and academic needs.

Subject: Special education due process system procedures. Purpose: To implement the Department’s and the New York City Depart- ment of Education’s (NYCDOE) Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with New York City’s Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings (OATH) to establish an administrative team of full-time impartial hearing officers.

Subject: Removes requirement that a postdoctoral general practice or specialty dental residency program experience be clinically based. Purpose: To implement chapter 613 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Continuing education requirements for licensed optometrists cer- tified to prescribe and use therapeutic pharmaceutical agents. Purpose: To implement section 9 of chapter 506 of the Laws of 2021.

Subject: Licensure as a clinical laboratory technologist or cytotechnolo- gist and certification as a clinical laboratory technician or histological technician. Purpose: To implement chapter 446 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Experience requirement for professional school building leader certification. Purpose: To remove the requirement that one year of such experience be as a school building leader.

Subject: Central library services aid and state aid for library construction. Purpose: To align the Commissioner’s regulations with recent amend- ments to sections 273 and 273-a of the Education Law.

Subject: Technical amendment relating to licensure in the profession of public accountancy. Purpose: To fix a clerical error for amendments to section 52.13 of the Commissioner’s adopted in September 2022.

Subject: Mental health practitioners’ diagnostic privilege. Purpose: To implement sections 2 and 3 of chapter 230 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: School counselor education program general registration requirements. Purpose: To require school counselor programs which lead to Initial and

Subject: Regulations governing fisheries management of American shad in the Delaware River and cobia. Purpose: Limit recreational harvest of species to ensure sustainability and consistency with interstate and Federal FMPs.

Subject: Central library services aid and state aid for library construction. Purpose: To align the Commissioner’s regulations with recent amend- ments to sections 273 and 273-a of the Education Law.

Subject: Technical amendment relating to licensure in the profession of public accountancy. Purpose: To fix a clerical error for amendments to section 52.13 of the Commissioner’s adopted in September 2022.

Subject: Requirements for members of the standing committee for the Regents examination appeals process. Purpose: To provide flexibility on who may serve as a member of the standing committee for the Regents examination appeals process.

Subject: Practice of registered dental assisting. Purpose: To conform the Commissioner’s regulations with chapter 512 of the Laws of 2022 and chapter 390 of the Laws of 2019.

Subject: Deferment of the declaration of a major by matriculated students for State financial aid purposes. Purpose: To allow students who matriculate with college credits to have additional time to declare their major and remain eligible for state financial aid.

Subject: Restarting the Accountability System Using 2021-2022 School Year Results. Purpose: To align the Commissioner’s regulations with approved state plan addendum and with provisions related to restart of the accountability system.

Subject: Definition of ‘‘prospective school employee’’. Purpose: To include individuals who will reasonably be expected to have telephonic communication or interaction with students.

Subject: Student teaching requirements for registered teacher preparation programs and through the individual evaluation pathway. Purpose: To extend for one year the timeline for programs to implement the new student teaching requirements, and to make amendments to such requirements and the student teaching requirements for the individual evaluation pathway to certification.

Subject: Special education due process hearings. Purpose: To amend due process hearing procedures relating to extensions, mediation and resolution, rules of conduct, and use of in-person, telecon- ference, and videoconference hearings.

Subject: Pilot P-20 Partnerships for Principal Preparation Program. Purpose: To extend the September 30, 2022 end date of the pilot program to September 30, 2025.

Subject: Licensure of licensed behavior analysts and certification of behavior analyst assistants. Purpose: To implement chapter 818 of the Laws of 2021 and chapter 641 of the Laws of 2022 and align provisions with national standards.

Subject: Indigenous Culture and Language Studies Certificate. Purpose: To establish the Indigenous Culture and Language Studies certificate.

Subject: Execution by registered professional nurses of non-patient specific orders to administer COVID-19 and influenza tests. Purpose: To implement part C of chapter 57 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Universal Prekindergarten Program (UPK) Staffing Qualifications. Purpose: To conform the Commissioner’s regulations to part A of chapter 56 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: School safety plans. Purpose: To conform the regulations to the amendments made to Educa- tion Law section 2801-a by chapter 227 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Independent nurse practitioner practice. Purpose: To implement part C of chapter 57 of the Laws of 2022.

Subject: Degree and experience requirements for college professors for the Tran G Certificate and the Individual Evaluation Pathway. Purpose: To amend degree and experience requirements for college professors for the Transitional G certificate and through the individual evaluation pathway to certification.

Subject: Laboratory experience required to take a science Regents examination. Purpose: To permit students to satisfy laboratory requirement through a combination of hands-on and simulated laboratory experience.