STATE OF NEW YORK
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3570--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. VALESKY, LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --
reported favorably from said committee and committed to the Committee
on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to cardiovascular
technologists
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 3502 of the public health law, as
2 amended by chapter 175 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. (a) No radiologic technologist shall administer or inject intrave-
5 nous contrast media unless [(a)] (i) the individual is certified by the
6 department to perform such function in accordance with the commission-
7 er's rules and regulations [(b)] (ii) such administration or injection
8 has been approved by a physician, physician's assistant, nurse practi-
9 tioner or registered professional nurse within twenty-four hours prior
10 to the administration or injection [(c)] (iii) a physician, physician's
11 assistant, nurse practitioner or registered professional nurse performs
12 an evaluation of the patient on the day of the procedure. Administration
13 or injection of contrast media means and is limited to the placement or
14 insertion of a needle or a catheter, not exceeding three inches in
15 length and not above the level of the axilla into a person's upper
16 extremity and the administration or injection of the intravenous
17 contrast media, manually or by mechanical injector, but does not mean
18 the determination of the type or volume of media to be administered or
19 injected.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (b) Nothing in this article or in any other provision of law shall
2 prevent a cardiovascular technologist, acting under the personal super-
3 vision of a physician, from introducing contrast medium to a patient
4 during a cardiovascular diagnostic or interventional procedure through
5 an arterial line placed by a licensed practitioner. The introduction of
6 contrast medium in preparation of or during such procedures shall not
7 constitute the administration of medication for the purposes of this
8 section.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.