Bill Text: NY A09517 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows individuals employed at National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers who meet the requirements for a restricted license to receive a certification allowing them to use mass spectrometry, and any tests or procedures acceptable to the commissioner of health in the field of proteomics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-08-11 - signed chap.276 [A09517 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09517-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      May 6, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
         ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to restricted clinical
         laboratory licenses issued under the  clinical  laboratory  technology
         practice act
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  1  of  section  8610  of  the
    2  education  law,  as added by chapter 204 of the laws of 2008, is amended
    3  to read as follows:
    4    (b) Notwithstanding paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision,  restricted
    5  licensees  employed  at  National  Cancer  Institute  designated  cancer
    6  centers or at teaching hospitals that  are  eligible  for  distributions
    7  pursuant  to  paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section twenty-eight
    8  hundred seven-m of the public health law may receive a certificate  that
    9  also  includes  the  practice  of  molecular diagnosis including but not
   10  limited  to  genetic  testing-molecular  and  molecular  oncology,   AND
   11  RESTRICTED  LICENSEES  EMPLOYED  AT NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE DESIGNATED
   12  CANCER CENTERS MAY RECEIVE A CERTIFICATE THAT INCLUDES THE USE  OF  MASS
   13  SPECTROMETRY  OR ANY TESTS AND PROCEDURES ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMMISSIONER
   14  OF HEALTH, IN CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  THE  FIELD  OF
   15  PROTEOMICS,  provided that such certificate holders may practice in such
   16  additional areas only at such centers, teaching hospitals or other sites
   17  as may be designated by the commissioner.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15001-02-4