Bill Text: NY A06627 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-6)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-05 - print number 6627b [A06627 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06627-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6627--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONALD, SAYEGH, WALLACE, SEAWRIGHT, MEEKS,
          JONES, JENSEN, LUPARDO, STIRPE, BUTTENSCHON, LUNSFORD  --  Multi-Spon-
          sored by -- M. of A.  TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Higher  Education  --  committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --  recommitted
          to  the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule
          3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to allowing a licensed
          pharmacist to order and administer certain tests; and to amend part  C
          of  chapter  57 of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law and
          the education law relating to allowing pharmacists to  direct  limited
          service  laboratories  and order and administer COVID-19 and influenza
          tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, in relation to  the  effec-
          tiveness thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 6801  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added  by  section  2  of  part  C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    7. A licensed pharmacist is a qualified health care professional under
     5  section five hundred seventy-one  of  the  public  health  law  for  the
     6  purposes  of  directing  a  limited  service laboratory and ordering and
     7  administering COVID-19 [and],  influenza,  respiratory  syncytial  virus
     8  (RSV),  pharyngitis  resulting  from  a Group A streptococcal infection,
     9  HbA1c, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tests author-
    10  ized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), subject  to  certificate
    11  of  waiver  requirements  established  pursuant  to the federal clinical
    12  laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight.
    13    § 2. Section 8 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws  of  2022  amending
    14  the public health law and the education law relating to allowing pharma-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  cists  to  direct  limited service laboratories and order and administer
     2  COVID-19 and influenza tests and  modernizing  nurse  practitioners,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    §  8.  This  act  shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
     5  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
     6  however, that sections one, two, three, four, six and seven of this  act
     7  shall expire and be deemed repealed [two] four years after it shall have
     8  become a law.
     9    §  3.  This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
    10  the amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6801  of  the  education  law
    11  made  by  section  one  of  this act shall not affect the repeal of such
    12  subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.