New York A 3285: Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests

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A03285 Summary:

BILL NOA03285 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01619

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SPONSORMcDonald (MS)

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COSPNSRSayegh, Seawright, Meeks, Jones, Jensen, Lupardo, Stirpe, Buttenschon, Lunsford, Simon, Simone,
 Levenberg, Blumencranz, Hevesi, Ramos, Lavine, Miller, Bronson, Zaccaro, Colton, Davila, Angelino,
 Bendett, Bologna, Gray, McMahon, Wieder, Steck, Kay, Brown K, Cruz, Clark, McDonough, Manktelow,
 Mikulin, Maher, Woerner, Brabenec, Slater, Shimsky, Fitzpatrick, Lee, Berger, Giglio, Palmesano

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MLTSPNSRTague

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Amd §6801, Ed L; amd Part C §8, Chap 57 of 2022

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Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests.

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BILL NOA03285 

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01/27/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3285

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 27, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, SAYEGH, SEAWRIGHT, MEEKS, JONES,
 JENSEN, LUPARDO, STIRPE, BUTTENSCHON, LUNSFORD, SIMON, SIMONE, LEVEN-
 BERG, BLUMENCRANZ, HEVESI, RAMOS, LAVINE, MILLER, BRONSON, ZACCARO,
 COLTON, DAVILA, ANGELINO, BENDETT -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
 TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing a licensed
 pharmacist to order and administer certain tests; and to amend part C
 of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law and
 the education law relating to allowing pharmacists to direct limited
 service laboratories and order and administer COVID-19 and influenza
 tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, in relation to the effec-
 tiveness thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 6801 of the education law, as
 2 added by section 2 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 7. A licensed pharmacist is a qualified health care professional under
 5 section five hundred seventy-one of the public health law for the
 6 purposes of directing a limited service laboratory and ordering and
 7 administering COVID-19 [and], influenza, respiratory syncytial virus
 8 (RSV), pharyngitis resulting from a Group A streptococcal infection,
 9 HbA1c, hepatitis C, and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) tests author-
 10 ized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), subject to certificate
 11 of waiver requirements established pursuant to the federal clinical
 12 laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight.
 13 § 2. Section 8 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022 amending
 14 the public health law and the education law relating to allowing pharma-
 15 cists to direct limited service laboratories and order and administer
 16 COVID-19 and influenza tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, as

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04152-01-5

 A. 3285 2

 1 amended by section 1 of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2024, is
 2 amended to read as follows:
 3 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to
 4 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
 5 however, that sections one, two, three, four, six and seven of this act
 6 shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, [2026] 2028.
 7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
 8 the amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6801 of the education law
 9 made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of such
 10 subdivision and shall be deemed repealed therewith.

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