Relates to certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1468
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to certificates of
   qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 573 of the public health law, as
 amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health  law
 relating  to certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and
 blood banks, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8966-A  and  A.
 9235-A, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  The  department  shall issue a certificate of qualification to any
 person who meets [prescribed] minimum qualifications [under], PRESCRIBED
 BY THE DEPARTMENT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH federal regulations,  including
 board  certification  as required, and who otherwise demonstrates to the
 department that such person possesses the character, competence,  train-
 ing  and  ability  to  administer  properly the technical and scientific
 operation of a clinical laboratory or blood bank, including  supervision
 of procedures and reporting of findings of tests.
   §  2.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  5 of section 225 of the public
 health law, as amended by chapter 571 of the laws of 1976, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (b) prescribe the qualifications of public  health  personnel  of  the
 department,  directors  of  divisions,  regional health directors, state
 district health officers, local health  officers;  [directors  or  other
 persons  in  charge of laboratories;] county and city health commission-
 ers, deputy and assistant county or city  health  commissioners;  public
 health  administrators; county health directors and deputy and assistant
 county health directors;  directors  of  county  physically  handicapped
 children's   programs;  directors  of  medical  care  (local  assistance
 programs); public health  nurses;  public  health  physical  therapists;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 public  health educators; nurse-midwives; medical social workers; public
 health social workers; radiation safety officers;  sanitary  and  public
 health engineers, sanitarians, sanitary inspectors; public health veter-
 inarians;  operators  of public water treatment and purification plants;
 and the qualifications of persons not paid from public funds and who are
 appointed and employed after January first, nineteen hundred  forty-sev-
 en,  as  operators  of  water  treatment or purification plants owned or
 operated by water companies, corporations or by a  person  or  group  of
 persons  serving  the general public residing in a political subdivision
 or any part thereof;
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date in the same manner as
 a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law relating to
 certificates of qualification for clinical laboratories and blood banks,
 as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 8966-A and A. 9235-A,  takes
 effect.