Bill Text: NY S05263 | 2023-2024 | 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) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05263 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05263-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5263

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 28, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. SKOUFIS, ADDABBO, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, 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) Any licensed pharmacists may order  infectious  disease  tests,
     4  approved  by  the food and drug administration, to detect the infectious
     5  disease or its antibodies, and  administering  such  tests,  subject  to
     6  certificate  of  waiver  requirements  pursuant  to the federal clinical
     7  laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight, to patients
     8  suspected of an infectious disease, or  suspected  of  having  recovered
     9  from  an infectious disease, subject to completion of appropriate train-
    10  ing developed by the department.
    11    (b) Licensed pharmacists shall be designated as a qualified healthcare
    12  professional for the purpose of directing a limited service  laboratory,
    13  pursuant  to  subdivision  three  of  this  section,  to  test  patients
    14  suspected of an infectious disease or its antibodies provided that  such
    15  test  is approved by the food and drug administration and waived for its
    16  use in a limited service laboratory.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05223-01-3