Bill Text: NY A07724 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Updates the scope of restricted clinical laboratory licenses to include the practice of molecular testing.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-06-21 - substituted by s7527 [A07724 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07724-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7724

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  restricted  clinical
          laboratory licenses

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 1 of section 8610  of
     2  the  education  law,  as amended by chapter 227 of the laws of 2019, are
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) The department may issue a restricted license  pursuant  to  which
     5  the  restricted  licensee  may  receive a certificate to perform certain
     6  examinations and procedures within the definition of clinical laboratory
     7  technology set forth in subdivision one of  section  eighty-six  hundred
     8  one  of  this  article,  provided  that  such  a restricted licensee may
     9  perform examinations and procedures only in those of the following areas
    10  which are specifically listed in his or her certificate:   histocompati-
    11  bility,  cytogenetics,  stem cell process, flow cytometry/cellular immu-
    12  nology [and molecular diagnosis to the extent such  molecular  diagnosis
    13  is included in genetic testing-molecular and molecular oncology], molec-
    14  ular  testing,  and  toxicology  (under paragraph (b-1) of this subdivi-
    15  sion).
    16    (b) Notwithstanding paragraph  (a)  of  this  subdivision,  restricted
    17  licensees  employed  at  National  Cancer  Institute  designated  cancer
    18  centers or at teaching hospitals that  are  eligible  for  distributions
    19  pursuant  to  paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section twenty-eight
    20  hundred seven-m of the public health law may receive a certificate  that
    21  also  includes  the  practice of molecular [diagnosis] testing including
    22  but not limited to genetic testing-molecular and molecular oncology, and
    23  restricted licensees employed at national  cancer  institute  designated
    24  cancer  centers  may receive a certificate that includes the use of mass
    25  spectrometry or any tests and procedures acceptable to the  commissioner

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11731-01-3
        A. 7724                             2

     1  of  health,  in  consultation  with  the  commissioner,  in the field of
     2  proteomics, provided that such certificate holders may practice in  such
     3  additional areas only at such centers, teaching hospitals or other sites
     4  as may be designated by the commissioner.
     5    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.