Bill Text: NY S03304 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order the administering of tests for tuberculosis.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S03304 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S03304-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3304 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 4, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order the adminis- tering of tests for tuberculosis THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 6527 of the 2 education law, as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2002, is amended 3 to read as follows: 4 (c) administering [purified protein derivative (PPD)] tests FOR TUBER- 5 CULOSIS. 6 S 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 4 of section 6909 of the education 7 law, as added by chapter 221 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as 8 follows: 9 (c) administering [purified protein derivative (PPD)] tests FOR TUBER- 10 CULOSIS. 11 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08018-02-5