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A07605 Summary:

BILL NO	A07605
SAME AS	SAME AS S04490
SPONSOR	Angelino
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Amd 579 & 3001, Pub Health L
Relates to waiving the $200 microscopy registration fee for basic life support first response agencies.

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A07605 Actions:

BILL NO	A07605
05/25/2023	referred to health
01/03/2024	referred to health

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A07605 Committee Votes:

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A07605 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          7605
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      May 25, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to waiving a regis-
          tration fee for basic life support first response agencies
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 579 of the public
     2  health law, as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (b) The department may issue a certificate of registration authorizing
     5  the  performance  of  one  or  more  waived  tests or provider-performed
     6  microscopy procedures for a period of up to two years if the  applicant:
     7  (i)  files  a completed application with the department on such forms as
     8  the commissioner may prescribe; (ii) provides  documentation  acceptable
     9  to  the department demonstrating the ability to comply with the require-
    10  ments of this subdivision; and (iii) pays a two hundred dollar  biennial
    11  registration  fee  for each location where services are rendered; except
    12  that a voluntary ambulance  service  and  a  basic  life  support  first
    13  response  agency  as  defined in article thirty of the public health law
    14  and operated under section two hundred nine-b of the  general  municipal
    15  law  shall  be  exempt  from the requirement to pay a fee to obtain this
    16  certificate of registration; and except that the following  may  operate
    17  multiple  locations  under a single registration and pay a single regis-
    18  tration fee: (A) not-for-profit, state or local government  laboratories
    19  or  programs  engaged  in  limited  public  health testing not exceeding
    20  fifteen types of tests per registration; or (B) applicants that maintain
    21  a fixed location in the state and are approved by the department to move
    22  from testing site to testing site.
    23    § 2. Section 3001 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
    24  subdivision 22 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09086-01-3
        A. 7605                             2
 
     1    22.  "Basic  life  support  first  response agency" means an agency or
     2  organization determined by the department of health to be a  basic  life
     3  support non-transporting EMS agency.
     4    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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