STATE OF NEW YORK
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3285
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SAYEGH, SEAWRIGHT, MEEKS, JONES,
JENSEN, LUPARDO, STIRPE, BUTTENSCHON, LUNSFORD, SIMON, SIMONE, LEVEN-
BERG, BLUMENCRANZ, HEVESI, RAMOS, LAVINE, MILLER, BRONSON, ZACCARO,
COLTON, DAVILA, ANGELINO, BENDETT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
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-
15 cists to direct limited service laboratories and order and administer
16 COVID-19 and influenza tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, as
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04152-01-5
A. 3285 2
1 amended by section 1 of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2024, is
2 amended to read as follows:
3 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
4 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
5 however, that sections one, two, three, four, six and seven of this act
6 shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, [2026] 2028.
7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
8 the amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6801 of the education law
9 made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
10 subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.
