Rule Making Activitiess

Subject: Excelsior Jobs Program. Purpose: Update the administrative process of the Program to allow for eligiblity of Green CHIPS projects.

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: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To delete positions from and to classify positions in the non- competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To delete a position from and to classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To delete positions from and to classify positions in the exempt and non-competitive classes.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To delete and to classify a position in the exempt and non- competitive classes.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To delete positions from and to classify positions in the non- competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the non-competitive class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify positions in the exempt class.

Subject: Jurisdictional Classification. Purpose: To classify a position in the exempt class and to classify a posi- tion from the non-competitive class.

Subject: Disposition for violations of the conditions of release. Purpose: To bring Board regulations into compliance with recent amend- ments to the Executive Law.

Subject: Allowing telemedicine in some circumstances, supersede previ- ous emergency adoption. Purpose: To allow telemedicine in some circumstances due to COVID-19 and keep in effect during permanent telehealth proposal process.

Subject: Waiver of certain Commission requirements related to the distri- bution of telephone directories. Purpose: To ensure performance in accordance with applicable telecom- munications laws, regulations and standards and the public interest.

Subject: Issuance of securities and other forms of indebtedness. Purpose: To determine if the issuance of funding for capital needs and a surcharge mechanism is in the public interest.

Subject: Tariff filing. Purpose: To consider whether the proposed tariff revisions are in the pub- lic interest.

Subject: Violations, Hearings and Enforcement. Purpose: The proposed rule establishes the parameters around violations, hearings, and enforcement which accords with the Cannabis Law and cre- ates requirements that are intended to further protect public health, safety, and welfare by preventing unlawful cannabis or unsafe practices from permeating the marketplace.

Subject: Rules of conduct for persons entering and using Grand Central Madison Terminal and its related facilities. Purpose: To facilitate the proper use of Grand Central Madison Terminal and ensure the safety of employees, customers and the public.

Subject: Class SA, SB, SC and I saline waters of the State. Purpose: Amend the water quality standards protective of shellfishing and recreation in the State’s saline waters.

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.