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Assembly Bill A6662

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires a prescription for the sale of home HIV/AIDS testing devices that do not require lab testing

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2015-A6662 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง641, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A3520
2011-2012: A4368
2013-2014: A4831

2015-A6662 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires a prescription for the sale of home HIV/AIDS testing devices that do not require lab testing; provides that sale includes civil penalty of five hundred dollars per violation.

2015-A6662 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  6662

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 30, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PERRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Health

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in  relation  to  requiring  a
  prescription for the sale of certain home HIV testing kits

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.   The general business law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
section 641 to read as follows:
  S  641.  SALE  OF  CERTAIN HOME HIV TESTING KITS; PRESCRIPTION.  1. NO
PERSON SHALL OFFER OR AGREE TO DISPENSE, SELL OR  TRANSFER  A  HOME  HIV
TESTING  KIT  THAT  DOES  NOT  REQUIRE THE TEST SPECIMEN TO BE SENT TO A
LABORATORY OR EQUIVALENT FACILITY FOR ANALYSIS TO ANY PERSON EXCEPT UPON
A PRESCRIPTION WRITTEN BY A PERSON  LEGALLY  AUTHORIZED  TO  ISSUE  SUCH
PRESCRIPTION.
  2. KNOWING VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION SHALL BE PUNISHABLE BY A FINE NOT
TO EXCEED FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR EACH OFFENSE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03562-01-5

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