New York A 2685: Establishes the municipal gun buyback program and municipal gun buyback program fund

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A02685 Summary:

BILL NOA02685A

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SAME ASSAME AS S00684-A

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SPONSORTapia

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COSPNSRHevesi, Santabarbara, Lunsford, Reyes, Rivera, McDonald, Cruz, Kim, Berger

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§3502, 3501 & 3510, add §3503, Pub Health L

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Authorizes a holder of a license to perform limited-scope radiography to practice radiography at urgent care centers under the supervision of a licensed practitioner or licensed registered radiologic technologist; defines limited-scope radiographer as a person licensed to practice radiography limited to chest, extremities, skull/sinus, and spine/sacrum at urgent care centers; makes related provisions.

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BILL NOA02685A

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01/22/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

01/12/2026amend and recommit to health

01/12/2026print number 2685a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 2685--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 22, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. TAPIA, HEVESI, STECK, SANTABARBARA, LUNSFORD,
 REYES, RIVERA, McDONALD, CRUZ, KIM, BERGER -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health
 in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,
 bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
 committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to limited-scope
 radiographers

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1, paragraph (c) of subdivision 2 and subdivi-
 2 sion 4 of section 3502 of the public health law, as added by chapter 175
 3 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows:
 4 1. The department shall issue separate licenses in the areas of radi-
 5 ography, radiation therapy and nuclear medicine technology to individ-
 6 uals who qualify under section thirty-five hundred five of this title.
 7 The department shall issue limited-scope radiographer licenses to indi-
 8 viduals who qualify under sections thirty-five hundred three and thir-
 9 ty-five hundred five of this title.
 10 (c) only persons licensed under this article shall practice radiogra-
 11 phy, radiation therapy or nuclear medicine technology or use the title
 12 "limited-scope radiographer," "radiographer," "radiologic technologist,"
 13 "radiation therapist" or "nuclear medicine technologist" or use the
 14 abbreviations LRT, RTT, LRTT, NMT, or LNMT with [his or her] such
 15 person's name; and
 16 4. No radiologic technologist shall administer or inject intravenous
 17 contrast media unless (a) the individual is certified by the department
 18 to perform such function in accordance with the commissioner's rules and
 19 regulations (b) such administration or injection has been approved by a
 20 physician, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner or registered
 21 professional nurse within twenty-four hours prior to the administration

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02747-03-6

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 1 or injection (c) a physician, physician's assistant, nurse practitioner
 2 or registered professional nurse performs an evaluation of the patient
 3 on the day of the procedure. Administration or injection of contrast
 4 media means and is limited to the placement or insertion of a needle or
 5 a catheter, not exceeding three inches in length and not above the level
 6 of the axilla into a person's upper extremity and the administration or
 7 injection of the intravenous contrast media, manually or by mechanical
 8 injector, but does not mean the determination of the type or volume of
 9 media to be administered or injected. Limited-scope radiographers shall
 10 not be authorized under this article to inject intravenous contrast
 11 media.
 12 § 2. Subdivision 17 of section 3501 of the public health law, as added
 13 by chapter 175 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
 14 17. "Supervision" means the oversight of a licensed radiologic tech-
 15 nologist or a limited-scope radiograp