Bill Text: NY A01534 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1534 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Allows for the testing of certain infectious diseases by pharmacists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to higher education [A01534 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01534-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1534

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to allowing  for  the
          testing of certain infectious diseases at pharmacies

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 579 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. (a) This title shall not be applicable in a declared state of emer-
     4  gency, pursuant to section twenty-eight of the  executive  law,  to  any
     5  licensed  pharmacists ordering infectious disease tests, approved by the
     6  food and drug administration, to detect the infectious  disease  or  its
     7  antibodies,  and  administering  such  tests,  subject to certificate of
     8  waiver requirements pursuant to the federal clinical laboratory improve-
     9  ment act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight, to patients suspected  of  an
    10  infectious  disease, or suspected of having recovered from an infectious
    11  disease, subject to completion of appropriate training developed by  the
    12  department.
    13    (b) In a declared state of emergency, pursuant to section twenty-eight
    14  of  the  executive  law,  licensed  pharmacists shall be designated as a
    15  qualified healthcare professional for the purpose of directing a limited
    16  service laboratory, pursuant to subdivision three of  this  section,  to
    17  test  patients  suspected  of  an  infectious  disease or its antibodies
    18  provided that such test is approved by the food and drug  administration
    19  and waived for its use in a limited service laboratory.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00593-01-1