What's happening
This bill expands restricted clinical laboratory licenses to include immunohematology and microbiology procedures in New York.
Why it matters
Expanding the scope of restricted clinical laboratory licenses means more professionals can legally perform immunohematology and microbiology tests. , potentially easing staffing shortages and improving patient access to these critical diagnostics in hospitals and clinics.
Including immunohematology (like blood typing and compatibility testing) and microbiology (such as infection detection) under restricted licenses could speed up diagnosis and treatment. especially in urgent care, transfusion services, and infectious disease control, where delays can have serious consequences.
By allowing these additional procedures under restricted licenses, the law may create new career pathways for lab technologists. , fostering workforce development and potentially lowering barriers to entry for those seeking specialized clinical lab roles in New York.
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- Print number 8725a
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
- Referred to higher education
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Expand Lab License Scope
In Senate Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Gustavo Rivera
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STATE OF NEW YORK
8725--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 25, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to restricted clinical laboratory licenses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8610 of the education law, as amended by chapter 227 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
(a) The department may issue a restricted license pursuant to which the restricted licensee may receive a certificate to perform certain examinations and procedures within the definition of clinical laboratory technology set forth in subdivision one of section eighty-six hundred one of this article, provided that such a restricted licensee may perform examinations and procedures only in those of the following areas which are specifically listed in his or her certificate: histocompatibility, cytogenetics, stem cell process, flow cytometry/cellular immunology and molecular diagnosis to the extent such molecular diagnosis is included in genetic testing-molecular and molecular oncology, [and] toxicology [(under paragraph (b-1) of this subdivision)], immunohematology, and microbiology.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of education shall make regulations and take other actions reasonably necessary to implement this act on that date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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