Senate Bill S6981

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes special permits to practice as a clinical laboratory practitioner

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education 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-S6981 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §8608, Ed L

2023-S6981 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes special permits to practice as a clinical laboratory practitioner which are valid for not more than 180 days or until the time an appropriate exam is taken.

2023-S6981 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6981 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6981
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  establishing  special
   permits to practice as a clinical laboratory practitioner
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The section heading of section 8608 of the  education  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  147 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as
 follows:
   Limited [and], provisional AND SPECIAL permits.
   § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 8608 of the education law is  renumbered
 subdivision 4 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows:
   3.  SPECIAL  PERMIT.  (A) THE DEPARTMENT MAY ISSUE A SPECIAL PERMIT TO
 PRACTICE AS A CLINICAL LABORATORY PRACTITIONER TO AN INDIVIDUAL WHO  HAS
 MET ALL REQUIREMENTS FOR LICENSURE AS A CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST
 OR  CYTOTECHNOLOGIST,  HISTOTECHNOLOGIST, OR CERTIFICATION AS A CLINICAL
 LABORATORY  TECHNICIAN  OR  HISTOTECHNICIAN,  EXCEPT  SUCH  REQUIREMENTS
 RELATING  TO EXAMINATIONS, AND PROVIDED THAT THE INDIVIDUAL IS UNDER THE
 GENERAL SUPERVISION OF THE DIRECTOR OF A CLINICAL LABORATORY, AS  DETER-
 MINED  BY  THE DEPARTMENT. PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT SUCH INDIVIDUAL SHALL
 FILE AN APPLICATION  WITH  THE  DEPARTMENT  FOR  LICENSURE  PURSUANT  TO
 SECTION  EIGHTY-SIX  HUNDRED  FIVE,  EIGHTY-SIX  HUNDRED SIX, EIGHTY-SIX
 HUNDRED SIX-A OR EIGHTY-SIX HUNDRED SIX-B OF THIS ARTICLE  AND  FOR  THE
 PERMIT ESTABLISHED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   (B)  THIS  SPECIAL PERMIT SHALL BE VALID FOR A PERIOD OF NOT MORE THAN
 ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY DAYS OR UNTIL THE TIME AN APPROPRIATE EXAMINATION  IS
 TAKEN  BY  THE INDIVIDUAL, WHICHEVER IS LATER, PROVIDED THAT THE SPECIAL
 LICENSE SHALL BE RENEWABLE ON A FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   (C)  EACH  SPECIAL  PERMIT  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT  TO  THE   DISCIPLINARY
 PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO LICENSEES PURSUANT TO SUBARTICLE THREE OF ARTI-
 CLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THIS TITLE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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