New York A 10564: Rules and regulations requiring nursing homes and residential health care facilities to test all residents of such nursing homes and residential healthcare facilities for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)

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A10564 Summary:

BILL NOA10564 

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SAME ASSAME AS S10087

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SPONSORClark

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §8610, Ed L

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Expands the type of certifications that may be accepted by the state of New York for restricted licenses; requires individuals may only perform toxicology testing in a laboratory authorized by the state of New York.

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BILL NOA10564 

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03/13/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10564

 IN ASSEMBLY

 March 13, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred 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. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (b-1) of subdivision 1 of section
 2 8610 of the education law, paragraphs (a) and (b) as amended by chapter
 3 186 of the laws of 2023 and paragraph (b-1) as added by chapter 227 of
 4 the laws of 2019, are amended to read as follows:
 5 (a) The department may issue a restricted license pursuant to which
 6 the restricted licensee may receive a certificate to perform certain
 7 examinations and procedures within the definition of clinical laboratory
 8 technology set forth in subdivision one of section eighty-six hundred
 9 one of this article, provided that such a restricted licensee may
 10 perform examinations and procedures only in those of the following areas
 11 which are specifically listed in [his or her] such licensee's certif-
 12 icate: histocompatibility, cytogenetics, stem cell process, flow
 13 cytometry/cellular immunology, molecular testing, and toxicology (under
 14 paragraph [(b-1)] (b) of this subdivision) or for which the restricted
 15 licensee has obtained a specialist certification from a nationally
 16 recognized certifying body acceptable to the department.
 17 (b) [Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this subdivision, restricted
 18 licensees employed at National Cancer Institute designated cancer
 19 centers or at teaching hospitals that are eligible for distributions
 20 pursuant to paragraph (c) of subdivision three of section twenty-eight
 21 hundred seven-m of the public health law may receive a certificate that
 22 also includes the practice of molecular testing including but not limit-
 23 ed to genetic testing-molecular and molecular oncology, and restricted
 24 licensees employed at national cancer institute designated cancer
 25 centers may receive a certificate that includes the use of mass spectro-
 26 metry or any tests and procedures acceptable to the commissioner of
 27 health, in consultation with the commissioner, in the field of proteom-
 28 ics, provided that such certificate holders may practice in such addi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14781-02-6

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 1 tional areas only at such centers, teaching hospitals or other sites as
 2 may be designated by the commissioner.
 3 (b-1)] Only individuals employed in a laboratory authorized by the New
 4 York state department of health [authorized] to perform toxicology
 5 [laboratory] testing, operating under the direction of a clinical labo-
 6 ratory director, may obtain a certificate in toxicology.
 7 § 2. This act shall take effect twelve months after it shall have
 8 become a law.

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