New York S 1619: Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests

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S01619 Summary:

BILL NOS01619 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03285

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SPONSORRIVERA

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COSPNSRADDABBO, BORRELLO, COONEY, FERNANDEZ, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, HELMING, JACKSON, KRUEGER, MAY, MURRAY,
 SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS, SUTTON, WEBB, WEBER, WEIK

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MLTSPNSR

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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 NOS01619 

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01/13/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/21/20251ST REPORT CAL.129

01/22/20252ND REPORT CAL.

01/27/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/10/2025PASSED SENATE

03/10/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/10/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/27/20261ST REPORT CAL.168

01/28/20262ND REPORT CAL.

01/29/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/05/2026PASSED SENATE

02/05/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/05/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1619

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 13, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES,
 HELMING, KRUEGER, MAY, MURRAY, SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, SKOUFIS, WEBB, WEIK
 -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to
 the Committee on Health

 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
 17 amended by section 1 of part P of chapter 57 of the laws of 2024, is
 18 amended to read as follows:

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

 S. 1619 2

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 4 shall expire and be deemed repealed July 1, [2026] 2028.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

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