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Senate Bill S9172

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to direct access laboratory testing for certain lipid screening assays

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2025-S9172 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §579-a, Pub Health L

2025-S9172 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that clinical laboratories may provide laboratory testing at the request of individuals, without a practitioner order or prescription, for certain types of cholesterol.

2025-S9172 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9172 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9172
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FAHY  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  direct  access
   laboratory testing for certain lipid screening assays
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 579-a to read as follows:
   §  579-A. DIRECT ACCESS LABORATORY TESTING FOR CERTAIN LIPID SCREENING
 ASSAYS. 1. AUTHORIZATION. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW,  A
 CLINICAL  LABORATORY LICENSED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE MAY PERFORM LABO-
 RATORY TESTING, AT THE REQUEST OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND  WITHOUT  A  PRACTI-
 TIONER ORDER OR PRESCRIPTION, LIMITED TO THE FOLLOWING ASSAYS:  LOW-DEN-
 SITY  LIPOPROTEIN  CHOLESTEROL  (LDL-C), INCLUDING DIRECT MEASUREMENT OR
 CALCULATED  HDL  CHOLESTEROL,  LDL  CHOLESTEROL,  TRIGLYCERIDES,   TOTAL
 CHOLESTEROL, AND LIPOPROTEIN(A) (LP(A)).
   2.  LABORATORY  REQUIREMENTS. A CLINICAL LABORATORY PERFORMING TESTING
 PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION SHALL:
   (A) PROVIDE THE TEST RESULTS TO THE SUBJECT OF THE TEST IN A CLEAR AND
 UNDERSTANDABLE FORMAT; AND
   (B) COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS  OF  THIS  ARTICLE,  REGU-
 LATIONS  PROMULGATED  THEREUNDER,  AND  THE  FEDERAL CLINICAL LABORATORY
 IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENTS OF 1988 (CLIA).
   3. LIMITATIONS. NOTHING IN THIS SECTION SHALL BE CONSTRUED TO:
   (A) AUTHORIZE THE DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT OF ANY DISEASE  OR  CONDITION
 BY A CLINICAL LABORATORY;
   (B)  EXPAND OR ALTER THE SCOPE OF PRACTICE OF ANY LICENSED HEALTH CARE
 PROFESSION; OR
   (C) PERMIT DIRECT ACCESS LABORATORY  TESTING  WITHOUT  A  PRACTITIONER
 ORDER FOR ANY ASSAY OTHER THAN THOSE EXPRESSLY IDENTIFIED UNDER SUBDIVI-
 SION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
 health is authorized to take any actions necessary to implement this act
 on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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