Senate Bill S4490

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Waives a registration fee for basic life support first response agencies

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health 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-S4490 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7605
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§579 & 3001, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S3111
2021-2022: S1950

2023-S4490 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to waiving the $200 microscopy registration fee for basic life support first response agencies.

2023-S4490 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S4490 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4490
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to waiving  a  regis-
   tration fee for basic life support first response agencies
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 579 of the public
 health law, as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (b) The department may issue a certificate of registration authorizing
 the performance of  one  or  more  waived  tests  or  provider-performed
 microscopy  procedures for a period of up to two years if the applicant:
 (i) files a completed application with the department on such  forms  as
 the  commissioner  may prescribe; (ii) provides documentation acceptable
 to the department demonstrating the ability to comply with the  require-
 ments  of this subdivision; and (iii) pays a two hundred dollar biennial
 registration fee for each location where services are  rendered;  except
 that  a  voluntary  ambulance  service  AND  A  BASIC LIFE SUPPORT FIRST
 RESPONSE AGENCY as defined in article thirty of the  public  health  law
 and  operated  under section two hundred nine-b of the general municipal
 law shall be exempt from the requirement to pay a  fee  to  obtain  this
 certificate  of  registration; and except that the following may operate
 multiple locations under a single registration and pay a  single  regis-
 tration  fee: (A) not-for-profit, state or local government laboratories
 or programs engaged in  limited  public  health  testing  not  exceeding
 fifteen types of tests per registration; or (B) applicants that maintain
 a fixed location in the state and are approved by the department to move
 from testing site to testing site.
   §  2. Section 3001 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 22 to read as follows:
   22. "BASIC LIFE SUPPORT FIRST RESPONSE  AGENCY"  MEANS  AN  AGENCY  OR
 ORGANIZATION  DETERMINED  BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO BE A BASIC LIFE
 SUPPORT NON-TRANSPORTING EMS AGENCY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.

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