Establishes training and registration requirements for kidney dialysis patient care technicians; provides such training shall include clearly defined criteria for annual evaluations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5634
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 18, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing
training and registration requirements for kidney dialysis patient
care technicians
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new article
2 37-B to read as follows:
3 ARTICLE 37-B
4 KIDNEY DIALYSIS PATIENT
5 CARE TECHNICIANS
6 Section 3720. Definitions.
7 3721. Training.
8 3722. Practice of kidney dialysis patient care.
9 3723. Exemption.
10 § 3720. Definitions. For the purposes of this article:
11 1. "Kidney dialysis patient care technician" means any person, not
12 licensed to practice medicine or nursing, or as a physician assistant or
13 specialist assistant, who performs kidney dialysis services on a human,
14 is employed in an out-patient dialysis center or hospital dialysis unit,
15 and has successfully completed the training requirements established
16 pursuant to section thirty-seven hundred twenty-one of this article and
17 the registration requirement of section thirty-seven hundred twenty-two
18 of this article.
19 2. "Kidney dialysis patient care technician trainee" means any person,
20 not licensed to practice medicine or nursing, or as a physician assist-
21 ant or specialist assistant, who performs kidney dialysis services on a
22 human, is employed or planning to be employed in an out-patient dialysis
23 center or hospital dialysis unit, and has enrolled in or completed the
24 training required by section thirty-seven hundred twenty-one of this
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 article and has not registered pursuant to section thirty-seven hundred
2 twenty-two of this article.
3 § 3721. Training. 1. The commissioner, in consultation with the
4 commissioner of education, shall establish standardized training
5 requirements for kidney dialysis patient care technicians.
6 2. Such training requirements established pursuant to this section and
7 the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner shall have
8 clearly defined criteria for evaluating, on an annual basis, each train-
9 ee's attainment of training goals and competency in provision of kidney
10 dialysis services. Kidney dialysis patient care technician training
11 programs may be conducted by:
12 (a) kidney dialysis providers;
13 (b) degree and non-degree granting institutions of higher education as
14 defined in section two of the education law, chartered, approved or
15 licensed by the board of regents; or
16 (c) any other entity approved by the commissioner to conduct such a
17 program.
18 3. The training established by this section shall include, but not be
19 limited to, the following topics:
20 (a) an overview of the roles and responsibilities of kidney dialysis
21 patient care technicians; and
22 (b) an overview of kidney dialysis therapy.
23 § 3722. Practice of kidney dialysis patient care. 1. Except as other-
24 wise provided by this article, no person shall provide kidney dialysis
25 services, as such services are defined by the commissioner, unless such
26 person has completed the training required pursuant to section thirty-
27 seven hundred twenty-one of this article, and has registered with the
28 department pursuant to subdivision two of this section.
29 2. Upon the successful completion of the training required pursuant to
30 section thirty-seven hundred twenty-one of this article, a person may
31 register with the department to become a kidney dialysis patient care
32 technician.
33 3. A kidney dialysis patient care technician and a kidney dialysis
34 patient care technician trainee shall be authorized to perform such
35 procedures and activities as the commissioner shall deem appropriate for
36 the level of training completed by such technician or trainee.
37 § 3723. Exemption. 1. Nothing in this section shall prohibit a person
38 from providing dialysis care to themself or in-home dialysis care
39 provided to a person by a friend or family member who does not represent
40 themselves to be a "kidney dialysis patient care technician".
41 2. The provisions of section thirty-seven hundred twenty-two of this
42 article shall not apply, until one year after the effective date of such
43 section, to any person who, on the effective date of such section, has
44 been providing kidney dialysis services for a period of not less than
45 two years.
46 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that
47 section 3722 of the public health law, as added by section one of this
48 act, shall take effect one year after the effective date of this act.
49 Effective immediately, the commissioner of health is authorized to
50 promulgate any rules and regulations necessary to implement the
51 provisions of this act on or before the effective date thereof.
