---
type: "Bill"
title: "Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing and to the nursing program evaluation commission"
description: "Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing and to the nursing program evaluation commission; authorizes the department to issue a temporary educational exemption; requires the commission to make recommendations on the impact of requirements for achievement of a baccalaureate degree in any lesser period of time than required by law as condition to maintaining employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2017-2018"
identifier: "S 7320"
citation: "New York S 7320 (2017-2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["FLANAGAN"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 11
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-01-05"
last_action: "2018-12-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/634cfd15-9e03-4927-bb85-acb13329e3cf"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2017/S7320"
source_hash: "a8ea68c701c8c3a11d9ad98af19768e5cdde464f7bb02643e005dec319694214"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 7320 (2017-2018) — Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing and to the nursing program evaluation commission

Relates to the educational preparation for practice of professional nursing and to the nursing program evaluation commission; authorizes the department to issue a temporary educational exemption; requires the commission to make recommendations on the impact of requirements for achievement of a baccalaureate degree in any lesser period of time than required by law as condition to maintaining employment.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S7320 HTML** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S7320&term=2017&Text=Y)
2. **S7320 PDF** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2017/S7320)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **25–0** (pass) · upper
- Floor Vote — **61–0** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **142–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- FLANAGAN — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-01-05** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2018-01-08** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.48
- **2018-01-08** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2018-01-08** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2018-01-08** REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-07** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8952
- **2018-05-07** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.804
- **2018-05-07** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2018-05-07** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2018-11-27** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2018-12-07** SIGNED CHAP.380 `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/634cfd15-9e03-4927-bb85-acb13329e3cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).