Bill Text: NY A08676 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Extends provisions relating to a limited license for clinical laboratory technology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-08 - substituted by s6929a [A08676 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08676-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8676--A
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to a limited license for
          clinical laboratory technology
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  2 of section 8610 of the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 336 of the laws of 2013, is amended
     3  to read as follows:
     4    (a) The department may issue a limited license and registration pursu-
     5  ant to which the limited licensee may perform  examinations  and  proce-
     6  dures  within the definition of clinical laboratory technology set forth
     7  in subdivision one of section eight thousand six  hundred  one  of  this
     8  article,  provided  that  an individual qualifying for a limited license
     9  pursuant to clause three of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b)  of  this
    10  subdivision  shall  perform  only those examinations and procedures that
    11  are for the purpose of human trials of such examinations and  procedures
    12  as  were  the  subject  of  the  individual's  research and that nothing
    13  contained in this subdivision shall authorize any individual to  provide
    14  any  examinations  or  procedures  that  he  or  she  is prohibited from
    15  performing pursuant to the public health law, and provided further  that
    16  an  individual  qualifying for a limited license pursuant to clause four
    17  of subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (b) of this subdivision shall  perform
    18  only  those  examinations  and  procedures  that are within the scope of
    19  practice of histological technicians. A limited license may  be  granted
    20  to  an  applicant  who  is  employed  in a clinical laboratory under the
    21  direction of a clinical director and may be issued for  the  purpose  of
    22  enabling  the  applicant  to complete the education and to pass the exam
    23  required for licensure as a clinical laboratory technologist  or  histo-
    24  logical technician in New York state, as applicable. Notwithstanding the
    25  provisions  of  section sixty-five hundred two of this title, no limited
    26  license shall be valid beyond September first,  two  thousand  [sixteen]
    27  eighteen  and  the registration issued with the limited license shall be
    28  effective until September first, two thousand [sixteen] eighteen.
    29    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13373-02-6