Bill Text: NY S07142 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for restricted clinical laboratory licenses for immunohematology and microbiology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S07142 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07142-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7142

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed 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. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  1  of  section  8610  of  the
     2  education law, as amended by chapter 227 of the laws of 2019, is amended
     3  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 is
    13  included  in  genetic  testing-molecular  and  molecular oncology, [and]
    14  toxicology [(under paragraph (b-1) of this subdivision)], immunohematol-
    15  ogy, and microbiology.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the commissioner  of
    18  education  shall  make  regulations  and  take  other actions reasonably
    19  necessary to implement this act on that date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13918-03-0