STATE OF NEW YORK
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6627--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SAYEGH, WALLACE, SEAWRIGHT, MEEKS,
JONES, JENSEN, LUPARDO, STIRPE, BUTTENSCHON, LUNSFORD -- Multi-Spon-
sored by -- M. of A. TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule
3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing a licensed
pharmacist to order and administer certain tests; and to amend part C
of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law and
the education law relating to allowing pharmacists to direct limited
service laboratories and order and administer COVID-19 and influenza
tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, in relation to the effec-
tiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 6801 of the education law, as
2 added by section 2 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 7. A licensed pharmacist is a qualified health care professional under
5 section five hundred seventy-one of the public health law for the
6 purposes of directing a limited service laboratory and ordering and
7 administering COVID-19 [and], influenza, respiratory syncytial virus
8 (RSV), pharyngitis resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection,
9 HbA1c, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tests author-
10 ized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), subject to certificate
11 of waiver requirements established pursuant to the federal clinical
12 laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight.
13 § 2. Section 8 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022 amending
14 the public health law and the education law relating to allowing pharma-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 cists to direct limited service laboratories and order and administer
2 COVID-19 and influenza tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
5 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
6 however, that sections one, two, three, four, six and seven of this act
7 shall expire and be deemed repealed [two] four years after it shall have
8 become a law.
9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
10 the amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6801 of the education law
11 made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
12 subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
