STATE OF NEW YORK
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765
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to certificates of
qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 573 of the public health law, as
2 amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law
3 relating to certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and
4 blood banks, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8966-A and A.
5 9235-A, is amended to read as follows:
6 1. The department shall issue a certificate of qualification to any
7 person who meets [prescribed] minimum qualifications [under], prescribed
8 by the department and in accordance with federal regulations, including
9 board certification as required, and who otherwise demonstrates to the
10 department that such person possesses the character, competence, train-
11 ing and ability to administer properly the technical and scientific
12 operation of a clinical laboratory or blood bank, including supervision
13 of procedures and reporting of findings of tests.
14 § 2. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 225 of the public
15 health law, as amended by chapter 571 of the laws of 1976, is amended to
16 read as follows:
17 (b) prescribe the qualifications of public health personnel of the
18 department, directors of divisions, regional health directors, state
19 district health officers, local health officers; [directors or other
20 persons in charge of laboratories;] county and city health commission-
21 ers, deputy and assistant county or city health commissioners; public
22 health administrators; county health directors and deputy and assistant
23 county health directors; directors of county physically handicapped
24 children's programs; directors of medical care (local assistance
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 programs); public health nurses; public health physical therapists;
2 public health educators; nurse-midwives; medical social workers; public
3 health social workers; radiation safety officers; sanitary and public
4 health engineers, sanitarians, sanitary inspectors; public health veter-
5 inarians; operators of public water treatment and purification plants;
6 and the qualifications of persons not paid from public funds and who are
7 appointed and employed after January first, nineteen hundred forty-sev-
8 en, as operators of water treatment or purification plants owned or
9 operated by water companies, corporations or by a person or group of
10 persons serving the general public residing in a political subdivision
11 or any part thereof;
12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date in the same manner as
13 a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law relating to
14 certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks,
15 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8966-A and A. 9235-A, takes
16 effect.
