S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1825
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to waiving a regis-
tration fee for basic life support first response agencies
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 579 of the public
health law, as amended by chapter 479 of the laws of 2013, is amended to
read as follows:
(b) The department may issue a certificate of registration authorizing
the performance of one or more waived tests or provider-performed
microscopy procedures for a period of up to two years if the applicant:
(i) files a completed application with the department on such forms as
the commissioner may prescribe; (ii) provides documentation acceptable
to the department demonstrating the ability to comply with the require-
ments of this subdivision; and (iii) pays a two hundred dollar biennial
registration fee for each location where services are rendered; except
that a voluntary ambulance service AND A BASIC LIFE SUPPORT FIRST
RESPONSE AGENCY as defined in article thirty of the public health law
and operated under section two hundred nine-b of the general municipal
law shall be exempt from the requirement to pay a fee to obtain this
certificate of registration; and except that the following may operate
multiple locations under a single registration and pay a single regis-
tration fee: (A) not-for-profit, state or local government laboratories
or programs engaged in limited public health testing not exceeding
fifteen types of tests per registration; or (B) applicants that maintain
a fixed location in the state and are approved by the department to move
from testing site to testing site.
§ 2. Section 3001 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 22 to read as follows:
22. "BASIC LIFE SUPPORT FIRST RESPONSE AGENCY" MEANS AN AGENCY OR
ORGANIZATION DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TO BE A BASIC LIFE
SUPPORT NON-TRANSPORTING EMS AGENCY.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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