Assembly Bill A9979

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing for the testing of certain infectious diseases by pharmacists

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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-A9979 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5263
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §579, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10699, S8570
2021-2022: A1534, S1742

2023-A9979 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for the testing of certain infectious diseases by pharmacists.

2023-A9979 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9979
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 1, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to allowing for the
   testing of certain infectious diseases at pharmacies
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 579 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  (A)  ANY  LICENSED PHARMACISTS MAY ORDER INFECTIOUS DISEASE TESTS,
 APPROVED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, TO DETECT  THE  INFECTIOUS
 DISEASE  OR  ITS  ANTIBODIES,  AND  ADMINISTERING SUCH TESTS, SUBJECT TO
 CERTIFICATE OF WAIVER REQUIREMENTS  PURSUANT  TO  THE  FEDERAL  CLINICAL
 LABORATORY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF NINETEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-EIGHT, TO PATIENTS
 SUSPECTED  OF  AN  INFECTIOUS  DISEASE, OR SUSPECTED OF HAVING RECOVERED
 FROM AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE, SUBJECT TO COMPLETION OF APPROPRIATE  TRAIN-
 ING DEVELOPED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   (B) LICENSED PHARMACISTS SHALL BE DESIGNATED AS A QUALIFIED HEALTHCARE
 PROFESSIONAL  FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECTING A LIMITED SERVICE LABORATORY,
 PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION  THREE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  TO  TEST  PATIENTS
 SUSPECTED  OF AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE OR ITS ANTIBODIES PROVIDED THAT SUCH
 TEST IS APPROVED BY THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION AND WAIVED FOR  ITS
 USE IN A LIMITED SERVICE LABORATORY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05223-01-3

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