Bill Text: NY S01742 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows for the testing of certain infectious diseases by pharmacists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01742 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01742-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1742

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  SKOUFIS,  ADDABBO, HOYLMAN, LIU -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health

        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to allowing for the
          testing of certain infectious diseases at pharmacies

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

     1    Section 1. Section 579 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. (a) This title shall not be applicable in a declared state of emer-
     4  gency,  pursuant  to  section  twenty-eight of the executive law, to any
     5  licensed pharmacists ordering infectious disease tests, approved by  the
     6  food  and  drug  administration, to detect the infectious disease or its
     7  antibodies, and administering such  tests,  subject  to  certificate  of
     8  waiver requirements pursuant to the federal clinical laboratory improve-
     9  ment  act  of nineteen hundred eighty-eight, to patients suspected of an
    10  infectious disease, or suspected of having recovered from an  infectious
    11  disease,  subject to completion of appropriate training developed by the
    12  department.
    13    (b) In a declared state of emergency, pursuant to section twenty-eight
    14  of the executive law, licensed pharmacists  shall  be  designated  as  a
    15  qualified healthcare professional for the purpose of directing a limited
    16  service  laboratory,  pursuant  to subdivision three of this section, to
    17  test patients suspected of  an  infectious  disease  or  its  antibodies
    18  provided  that such test is approved by the food and drug administration
    19  and waived for its use in a limited service laboratory.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00593-01-1