Bill Text: NY S08569 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows for unlicensed individuals to collect throat or nasopharyngeal swab specimens and to perform certain nursing tasks during a state disaster emergency.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-08 - PRINT NUMBER 8569A [S08569 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08569-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8569--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 16, 2020
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        Introduced  by Sens. SKOUFIS, LIU -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to allowing for unli-
          censed individuals to collect throat or nasopharyngeal swab  specimens
          and  to perform certain nursing tasks during certain state of disaster
          emergencies

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  6526 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. Any person in a declared state of disaster emergency for a disease
     4  outbreak or epidemic, pursuant to section twenty-eight of the  executive
     5  law,  shall  be  permitted,  upon  the successful completion of training
     6  deemed adequate by the commissioner, to collect throat or nasopharyngeal
     7  swab specimens from individuals suspected of being infected by an infec-
     8  tious disease, for purposes of testing.  The commissioner, in  consulta-
     9  tion  with the commissioner of health, shall establish training require-
    10  ments for unlicensed individuals to  collect  throat  or  nasopharyngeal
    11  swab specimens.
    12    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 6908 of the education law is amended by
    13  adding a new paragraph i to read as follows:
    14    i. As prohibiting in a declared state  of  disaster  emergency  for  a
    15  disease  outbreak  or  epidemic, pursuant to section twenty-eight of the
    16  executive law, to the extent  necessary,  non-nursing  staff,  upon  the
    17  successful  completion  of training deemed adequate by the commissioner,
    18  to perform tasks, under the supervision of a nurse, otherwise limited to
    19  the scope of practice of a licensed or registered nurse.    The  commis-
    20  sioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health, shall establish
    21  training requirements for non-nursing staff to perform the tasks permit-
    22  ted by this paragraph.
    23    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16652-02-0