Bill Text: NY S06929 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Extends provisions relating to a limited license for clinical laboratory technology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-07-21 - SIGNED CHAP.194 [S06929 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06929-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6929--A
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 8, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed 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 a limited license  for
          clinical laboratory technology
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  2  of  section  8610  of  the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 336 of the laws of 2013, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The department may issue a limited license and registration pursu-
     5  ant  to  which  the limited licensee may perform examinations and proce-
     6  dures within the definition of clinical laboratory technology set  forth
     7  in  subdivision  one  of  section eight thousand six hundred one of this
     8  article, provided that an individual qualifying for  a  limited  license
     9  pursuant  to  clause three of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of this
    10  subdivision shall perform only those examinations  and  procedures  that
    11  are  for the purpose of human trials of such examinations and procedures
    12  as were the subject  of  the  individual's  research  and  that  nothing
    13  contained  in this subdivision shall authorize any individual to provide
    14  any examinations or  procedures  that  he  or  she  is  prohibited  from
    15  performing  pursuant to the public health law, and provided further that
    16  an individual qualifying for a limited license pursuant to  clause  four
    17  of  subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall perform
    18  only those examinations and procedures that  are  within  the  scope  of
    19  practice  of  histological technicians. A limited license may be granted
    20  to an applicant who is employed  in  a  clinical  laboratory  under  the
    21  direction  of  a  clinical director and may be issued for the purpose of
    22  enabling the applicant to complete the education and to  pass  the  exam
    23  required  for  licensure as a clinical laboratory technologist or histo-
    24  logical technician in New York state, as applicable. Notwithstanding the
    25  provisions of section sixty-five hundred two of this title,  no  limited
    26  license  shall  be  valid beyond September first, two thousand [sixteen]
    27  eighteen and the registration issued with the limited license  shall  be
    28  effective until September first, two thousand [sixteen] eighteen.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13373-03-6