Assembly Bill A3285

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests

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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
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2025-A3285 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1619
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6801, Ed L; amd Part C §8, Chap 57 of 2022
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11256
2019-2020: A3867, S5092
2021-2022: A3033, S2529
2023-2024: A6627, S3467

2025-A3285 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows a licensed pharmacist to order and administer certain tests.

2025-A3285 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3285
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONALD,  SAYEGH,  SEAWRIGHT, MEEKS, JONES,
   JENSEN, LUPARDO, STIRPE, BUTTENSCHON, LUNSFORD, SIMON, SIMONE,  LEVEN-
   BERG,  BLUMENCRANZ,  HEVESI,  RAMOS, LAVINE, MILLER, BRONSON, ZACCARO,
   COLTON, DAVILA, ANGELINO, BENDETT -- Multi-Sponsored by --  M.  of  A.
   TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education

 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to allowing a licensed
   pharmacist to order and administer certain tests; and to amend part  C
   of  chapter  57 of the laws of 2022 amending the public health law and
   the education law relating to allowing pharmacists to  direct  limited
   service  laboratories  and order and administer COVID-19 and influenza
   tests and modernizing nurse practitioners, in relation to  the  effec-
   tiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 6801  of  the  education  law,  as
 added  by  section  2  of  part  C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   7. A licensed pharmacist is a qualified health care professional under
 section five hundred seventy-one  of  the  public  health  law  for  the
 purposes  of  directing  a  limited  service laboratory and ordering and
 administering COVID-19 [and],  influenza,  RESPIRATORY  SYNCYTIAL  VIRUS
 (RSV),  PHARYNGITIS  RESULTING  FROM  A GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION,
 HBA1C, HEPATITIS C, AND HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV) tests author-
 ized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), subject  to  certificate
 of  waiver  requirements  established  pursuant  to the federal clinical
 laboratory improvement act of nineteen hundred eighty-eight.
   § 2. Section 8 of 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,  as
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04152-01-5
 A. 3285                             2

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