Section 6505-C. Articulation between military and civilian professional careers

1. The commissioner shall develop, jointly with the director of  the division of veterans' affairs, a program to facilitate  articulation
  between  participation  in  the military service of the United States or
  the military service of  the  state  and  admission  to  practice  of  a
  profession. The commissioner and the director shall identify, review and
  evaluate  professional  training  programs  offered  through  either the
  military service of the United States or the  military  service  of  the
  state  which  may,  where  applicable,  be accepted by the department as
  equivalent education and training in lieu of all or part of an  approved
  program.  Particular  emphasis  shall be placed on the identification of
  military programs which have previously been deemed  acceptable  by  the
  department  as  equivalent  education  and  training, programs which may
  provide, where applicable, equivalent education and training  for  those
  professions  which are critical to public health and safety and programs
  which may provide, where applicable, equivalent education  and  training
  for  those  professions  for  which  shortages exist in the state of New
  York.
    2. The commissioner and the director shall prepare  a  list  of  those
  military  programs  which  have previously been deemed acceptable by the
  department as equivalent education and training in lieu of all  or  part
  of  an  approved  program  no  later  than  the thirtieth of August, two
  thousand three. On  and  after  such  date,  such  list  shall  be  made
  available  to  the  public and applicants for admission to practice of a
  profession.
    3. The commissioner and the director shall prepare  a  list  of  those
  military  programs  which  may  provide,  where  applicable,  equivalent
  education and training for  those  professions  which  are  critical  to
  public  health and safety, programs which may provide, where applicable,
  equivalent education  and  training  for  those  professions  for  which
  shortages exist in the state of New York and any other military programs
  which may, where applicable, be accepted by the department as equivalent
  education  and training in lieu of all or part of an approved program no
  later than the thirty-first of October, two thousand three. On and after
  such date,  such  list  shall  be  made  available  to  the  public  and
  applicants for admission to practice of a profession.
    4.  Such  lists shall be prepared annually no later than the thirtieth
  of June thereafter with additions and  deletions  made  jointly  by  the
  commissioner  and  the  director  and  made  available to the public and
  applicants for admission to practice of a profession on such date.