S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
January 10, 2014
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including chemistry,
hematology, microbiology and blood banking (immunohematology) as areas
covered by a restricted clinical laboratory license
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 8610 of the
education law, as added by chapter 204 of the laws of 2008, 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: histocompati-
bility, cytogenetics, stem cell process, flow cytometry/cellular immu-
nology, CHEMISTRY, HEMATOLOGY, MICROBIOLOGY AND BLOOD BANKING (IMMUNOHE-
MATOLOGY) and molecular diagnosis to the extent such molecular diagnosis
is included in genetic testing-molecular and molecular oncology.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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