Senate Bill S7872A

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                  7872--A
     Cal. No. 234
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 3, 2024
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 Introduced  by  Sens. RIVERA, FERNANDEZ, JACKSON, WEIK -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Higher Education -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to
   first  and  second  report,  ordered  to  a third reading, amended and
   ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading

 AN ACT to amend part C of chapter 57 of the laws of  2022  amending  the
   public  health  law and the education law relating to allowing pharma-
   cists to direct limited service laboratories and order and  administer
   COVID-19  and  influenza tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, in
   relation to the effectiveness thereof; and to amend chapter 21 of  the
   laws  of 2011 amending the education law relating to authorizing phar-
   macists to perform collaborative drug therapy management  with  physi-
   cians in certain settings, in relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 8 of part C of chapter  57  of  the  laws  of  2022
 amending  the public health law and the education law relating to allow-
 ing pharmacists to direct limited service  laboratories  and  order  and
 administer  COVID-19  and  influenza tests and modernizing nurse practi-
 tioners, is amended to read as follows:
   § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  be  deemed  to
 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided,
 however,  that sections one, two, three, four, six and seven of this act
 shall expire and be deemed repealed  [two  years  after  it  shall  have
 become a law] JULY 1, 2026.
   §  2.  Section 5 of chapter 21 of the laws of 2011 amending the educa-
 tion law relating to authorizing pharmacists  to  perform  collaborative
 drug  therapy management with physicians in certain settings, as amended
 by section 5 of part CC of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is amended to
 read as follows:
   § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that  the  provisions  of
 sections  two,  three,  and  four of this act shall expire and be deemed
 repealed July 1, [2024] 2026; provided, however, that the amendments  to
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 subdivision  1  of section 6801 of the education law made by section one
 of this act shall be subject to the expiration  and  reversion  of  such
 subdivision  pursuant  to  section 8 of chapter 563 of the laws of 2008,
 when  upon  such  date the provisions of section one-a of this act shall
 take effect; provided, further, that effective  immediately,  the  addi-
 tion,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
 the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized  and
 directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.