Assembly Bill A9798

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Establishes training and registration requirements for kidney dialysis patient care technicians

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A9798 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4596
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 37-B §§3720 - 3723, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S7508
2011-2012: S1157
2013-2014: S2840
2015-2016: S3985
2017-2018: S3590
2021-2022: A2365, S5052
2023-2024: A2251, S6006

2019-A9798 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes training and registration requirements for kidney dialysis patient care technicians.

2019-A9798 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9798
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 13, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public  health  law,  in  relation  to  establishing
   training  and  registration  requirements  for kidney dialysis patient
   care technicians
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new article
 37-B to read as follows:
                                ARTICLE 37-B
                          KIDNEY DIALYSIS PATIENT
                             CARE TECHNICIANS
 SECTION 3720. DEFINITIONS.
         3721. TRAINING.
         3722. PRACTICE OF KIDNEY DIALYSIS PATIENT CARE.
         3723. EXEMPTION.
   § 3720. DEFINITIONS. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS ARTICLE:
   1. "KIDNEY DIALYSIS PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN"  MEANS  ANY  PERSON,  NOT
 LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE OR NURSING, OR AS A PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT OR
 SPECIALIST  ASSISTANT,  WHO PERFORMS KIDNEY DIALYSIS SERVICES ON A HUMAN
 AND HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED  THE  TRAINING  REQUIREMENTS  ESTABLISHED
 PURSUANT  TO SECTION THIRTY-SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE AND
 THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENT OF SECTION THIRTY-SEVEN HUNDRED  TWENTY-TWO
 OF THIS ARTICLE.
   2. "KIDNEY DIALYSIS PATIENT CARE TECHNICIAN TRAINEE" MEANS ANY PERSON,
 NOT  LICENSED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE OR NURSING, OR AS A PHYSICIAN ASSIST-
 ANT OR SPECIALIST ASSISTANT, WHO PERFORMS KIDNEY DIALYSIS SERVICES ON  A
 HUMAN  AND HAS ENROLLED IN OR COMPLETED THE TRAINING REQUIRED BY SECTION
 THIRTY-SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THIS ARTICLE AND HAS  NOT  REGISTERED
 PURSUANT TO SECTION THIRTY-SEVEN HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO OF THIS ARTICLE.
   §  3721.  TRAINING.  1.  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION WITH THE
 COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION, SHALL  ESTABLISH  TRAINING  REQUIREMENTS  FOR
 KIDNEY DIALYSIS PATIENT CARE TECHNICIANS.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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