Assembly Bill A10322

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts the lab services accessibility act

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A10322 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S9344
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§585 & 586, Pub Health L

2023-A10322 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the lab services accessibility act.

2023-A10322 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10322
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 17, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Clark) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting  the  lab
   services accessibility act
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known any may  be  cited  as
 the "lab services accessibility act".
   §  2. Section 585 of the public health law, as added by chapter 803 of
 the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   § 585. Definitions. Whenever used in this title:
   1. "Health services purveyor" means  any  person,  firm,  partnership,
 group,  association,  NONPROFIT  CORPORATION, BUSINESS corporation [or],
 professional corporation,  LIMITED  LIABILITY  COMPANY,  or  any  agent,
 employee,  fiduciary, employer or representative thereof, [including but
 not limited to a physician, dentist, podiatrist or chiropractor,  either
 in  individual  practice, group practice or employed in a facility owned
 by any person, group,  association,  firm,  partnership  or  corporation
 hiring  any  of the aforementioned practitioners, who provide health or]
 THAT ASSISTS IN FACILITATING THE PROVISION OF HEALTH  RELATED  SERVICES,
 INCLUDING,  BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PARTICIPATION IN THE INITIATION, COORDI-
 NATION, PAYMENT, DELIVERY, OR FOLLOW-UP OF SUCH health related services.
   2. "Clinical laboratory" shall have the same meaning as is  set  forth
 in subdivision one of section five hundred seventy-one of this article.
   3.  "PUBLIC  HEALTH  PROGRAM" SHALL MEAN AN INITIATIVE UNDER WHICH THE
 CLINICAL LABORATORY SERVICES ARE PERFORMED IN RELATION TO ANY PROCEDURE,
 TEST, ASSAY, OR DIAGNOSTIC WHERE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING APPLIES:
   (A) IT IS SUPPORTED BY PUBLIC HEALTH FUNDS, GRANTS, OR AWARDS; OR
   (B) IT IS REASONABLY EXPECTED TO  RESPOND  TO  A  PUBLIC  HEALTH  NEED
 RECOGNIZED BY LAW, REGULATION, THE DEPARTMENT, OR OTHER APPLICABLE GUID-
 ANCE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO:
   (I) TESTING WITH A HEIGHTENED NEED FOR CONFIDENTIALITY, INCLUDING, BUT
 NOT  LIMITED TO, TESTING RELATED TO: (1) A TERMINATION OF PREGNANCY, (2)
 A  SEXUALLY  TRANSMITTIBLE  INFECTION,  (3)  ANTIRETROVIRAL  PREEXPOSURE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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