Bill Text: NY S05036 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to supervising the transfilling of medical oxygen; requires registered wholesalers who transfill medical oxygen to ensure any person responsible for supervising such process meets certain qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - SIGNED CHAP.590 [S05036 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05036-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5036--A
            Cal. No. 516

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAY,  JACKSON,  MANNION -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Higher
          Education  -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
          and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed  by  Senate  and
          delivered  to  the  Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to
          third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its  place  in
          the order of third reading

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to supervising the trans-
          filling of medical oxygen

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

     1    Section 1. Section 6808 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  Supervision  requirements  for  wholesalers  transfilling  medical
     4  oxygen.  Wholesalers  registered  under  this  section  which  transfill
     5  medical  oxygen  shall ensure any person responsible for supervising the
     6  transfilling of medical oxygen is:
     7    a. a respiratory therapist certified by a national accrediting body;
     8    b. a person holding a bachelor's degree  in  chemistry,  microbiology,
     9  chemical engineering or a related field;
    10    c.  a  person having two years of education beyond high school and two
    11  years experience in the handling of compressed medical  gases  satisfac-
    12  tory to the state board of pharmacy; or
    13    d. a person having training in accordance with the requirements estab-
    14  lished in section 211.25 of title 21 of the code of federal regulations.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    16  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    17  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    18  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    19  completed on or before such effective date.

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