STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________

7872--A Cal. No. 234

IN SENATE

January 3, 2024 ___________

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:

1 Section 1. Section 8 of part C of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022 2 amending the public health law and the education law relating to allow- 3 ing pharmacists to direct limited service laboratories and order and 4 administer COVID-19 and influenza tests and modernizing nurse practi- 5 tioners, is amended to read as follows: 6 § 8. This act shall take effect immediately and shall be deemed to 7 have been in full force and effect on and after April 1, 2022; provided, 8 however, that sections one, two, three, four, six and seven of this act 9 shall expire and be deemed repealed [two years after it shall have 10 become a law] July 1, 2026. 11 § 2. Section 5 of chapter 21 of the laws of 2011 amending the educa- 12 tion law relating to authorizing pharmacists to perform collaborative 13 drug therapy management with physicians in certain settings, as amended 14 by section 5 of part CC of chapter 57 of the laws of 2022, is amended to 15 read as follows: 16 § 5. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 17 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the provisions of 18 sections two, three, and four of this act shall expire and be deemed 19 repealed July 1, [2024] 2026; provided, however, that the amendments to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. LBD13910-02-4

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1 subdivision 1 of section 6801 of the education law made by section one 2 of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion of such 3 subdivision pursuant to section 8 of chapter 563 of the laws of 2008, 4 when upon such date the provisions of section one-a of this act shall 5 take effect; provided, further, that effective immediately, the addi- 6 tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for 7 the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and 8 directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date. 9 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.