Bill Text: NY A08619 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Extends provisions of law relating to allowing pharmacists to direct limited service laboratories and order and administer COVID-19 and influenza tests and modernizing nurse practitioners and authorizing pharmacists to perform collaborative drug therapy management with physicians in certain settings.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-03-28 - advanced to third reading cal.384 [A08619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08619-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8619--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 12, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PAULIN, LUPARDO, GUNTHER, LUNSFORD, JACOBSON,
          DE LOS SANTOS, CURRAN -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Higher  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  again
          reported  from  said  committee  with amendments, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend part C of chapter 57 of the laws of  2022  amending  the
          public  health  law and the education law relating to allowing pharma-
          cists to direct limited service laboratories and order and  administer
          COVID-19  and  influenza tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, in
          relation to the effectiveness thereof; and to amend chapter 21 of  the
          laws  of 2011 amending the education law relating to authorizing phar-
          macists to perform collaborative drug therapy management  with  physi-
          cians in certain settings, in relation to the effectiveness thereof

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

     1    Section 1. Section 8 of part C of chapter  57  of  the  laws  of  2022
     2  amending  the public health law and the education law relating to allow-
     3  ing pharmacists to direct limited service  laboratories  and  order  and
     4  administer  COVID-19  and  influenza tests and modernizing nurse practi-
     5  tioners, is amended to read as follows:
     6    § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
     7  have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
     8  however,  that sections one, two, three, four, six and seven of this act
     9  shall expire and be deemed repealed  [two  years  after  it  shall  have
    10  become a law] July 1, 2026.
    11    §  2.  Section 5 of chapter 21 of the laws of 2011 amending the educa-
    12  tion law relating to authorizing pharmacists  to  perform  collaborative
    13  drug  therapy management with physicians in certain settings, as amended
    14  by section 5 of part CC of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
    15  read as follows:
    16    § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law, provided, however, that  the  provisions  of
    18  sections  two,  three,  and  four of this act shall expire and be deemed

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13961-03-4

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     1  repealed July 1, [2024] 2026; provided, however, that the amendments  to
     2  subdivision  1  of section 6801 of the education law made by section one
     3  of this act shall be subject to the expiration  and  reversion  of  such
     4  subdivision  pursuant  to  section 8 of chapter 563 of the laws of 2008,
     5  when upon such date the provisions of section one-a of  this  act  shall
     6  take  effect;  provided,  further, that effective immediately, the addi-
     7  tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or  regulation  necessary  for
     8  the  implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and
     9  directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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