N.Y. Education Law § 6541 (2026)

§ 6541. Requirements for license. 1. To qualify for a license as a
physician assistant, each person shall pay a fee of one hundred fifteen
dollars to the department for admission to a department conducted
examination, a fee of forty-five dollars for each reexamination and a
fee of seventy dollars for persons not requiring admission to a
department conducted examination and shall also submit satisfactory
evidence, verified by oath or affirmation, that he or she:
  (a) at the time of application is at least twenty-one years of age;
  (b) is of good moral character;
  (c) has received an education including a bachelor's or equivalent
degree in accordance with the commissioner's regulations;
  (d) has satisfactorily completed an approved program for the training
of physician assistants. The approved program for the training of
physician assistants shall include not less than forty weeks of
supervised clinical training and thirty-two credit hours of classroom
work.  Applicants for a license as a physician assistant who have
completed an approved program leading to a bachelor's degree or
equivalent in physician assistant studies shall be deemed to have
satisfied this paragraph. The commissioner is empowered to determine
whether an applicant possesses equivalent education and training, such
as experience as a nurse or military corpsman, which may be accepted in
lieu of all or part of an approved program; and
  (e) in the case of an applicant for a license as a physician
assistant, has obtained a passing score on an examination acceptable to
the department.
  2. The department shall furnish to each person applying for a license
pursuant to this section an application form calling for such
information as the department deems necessary and shall issue to each
applicant who satisfies the requirements of subdivision one of this
section a license as a physician assistant in a particular medical
specialty for the period expiring December thirty-first of the first
odd-numbered year terminating subsequent to the issuance of such
license.
  3. Every licensee shall apply to the department for a renewal of his
or her license. The department shall mail to every licensed physician
assistant an application form for renewal, addressed to the licensee's
post office address on file with the department. Upon receipt of such
application properly executed, together with evidence of satisfactory
completion of such continuing education requirements as may be
established by the commissioner of health pursuant to section
thirty-seven hundred one of the public health law, the department shall
issue a renewal. Renewal periods shall be triennial and the renewal fee
shall be forty-five dollars.