Authorizes nurse practitioners and physicians to issue non-patient specific orders to administer tests to determine the presence of the hepatitis C virus.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9124--A
IN ASSEMBLY
March 19, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, GOTTFRIED, MILLMAN, GUNTHER, JAFFEE,
SKOUFIS, JACOBS, MAGNARELLI, BENEDETTO, DAVILA, MONTESANO, LUPINACCI,
CAHILL, OTIS, GRAF, ROBINSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BRAUN-
STEIN, BRENNAN, COOK, CROUCH, HOOPER, MARKEY, PERRY, RIVERA, SWEENEY,
TITONE, WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on High-
er Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing nurse
practitioners and physicians to issue non-patient specific orders
authorizing registered professional nurses to administer tests to
determine the presence of the hepatitis C virus
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 6909 of the education law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
3 (e) administering tests to determine the presence of the hepatitis C
4 virus.
5 § 2. Subdivision 6 of section 6527 of the education law is amended by
6 adding a new paragraph (e) to read as follows:
7 (e) administering tests to determine the presence of the hepatitis C
8 virus.
9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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