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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6724--B
                                                                Cal. No. 485
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     April 17, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, JACOBS, PAULIN, CYMBROWITZ, STIRPE --
          Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended

          and recommitted to said committee -- reported from committee, advanced
          to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place
          on the order of third reading
 
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to conducting certain
          clinical laboratory tests
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section 571 of the public health  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 204 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
     3    6.  "Qualified  health  care professional" means a physician, dentist,
     4  podiatrist, optometrist performing a clinical laboratory test that  does
     5  not  use  an invasive modality as defined in section seventy-one hundred
     6  one of the education law,  physician  assistant,  specialist  assistant,

     7  nurse  practitioner, or midwife, who is licensed and registered with the
     8  state education department.
     9    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 579 of the public health law,  as  sepa-
    10  rately  amended  by chapters 397 and 440 of the laws of 2004, is amended
    11  to read as follows:
    12    1. This title is applicable to all  clinical  laboratories  and  blood
    13  banks operating within the state, except clinical laboratories and blood
    14  banks operated by the federal government and clinical laboratories oper-
    15  ated by a licensed physician, osteopath, dentist, midwife, nurse practi-
    16  tioner,  optometrist performing a clinical laboratory test that does not
    17  use an invasive modality as defined in section seventy-one  hundred  one
    18  of  the  education  law  or  podiatrist who performs laboratory tests or

    19  procedures, personally or through his or her  employees,  solely  as  an
    20  adjunct  to  the  treatment  of  his  or her own patients; to the extent
    21  authorized by federal and state law, including the  education  law,  and
    22  consistent with any applicable written practice agreement.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10148-05-3