Bill Text: NY A00228 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the disposal of prescription drugs program, implementing a system by which pharmacies accept and dispose of any unused portions of prescription drugs prescribed to residents of this state.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to health [A00228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00228-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          228
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Health
       AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to establishing the
         disposal of prescription drugs program
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new article
    2  2-B to read as follows:
    3                                  ARTICLE 2-B
    4                   DISPOSAL OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PROGRAM
    5  SECTION 290. DEFINITIONS.
    6          291. DISPOSAL OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PROGRAM; ESTABLISHMENT.
    7    S 290. DEFINITIONS. 1. "PRESCRIPTION DRUG"  OR  "DRUG"  MEANS  A  DRUG
    8  DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVISION SEVEN OF SECTION SIXTY-EIGHT HUNDRED TWO OF THE
    9  EDUCATION LAW, FOR WHICH A PRESCRIPTION IS REQUIRED  UNDER  THE  FEDERAL
   10  FOOD, DRUG AND COSMETIC ACT.
   11    2. "PHARMACY" MEANS ANY PLACE IN WHICH DRUGS, PRESCRIPTIONS OR POISONS
   12  ARE  POSSESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF COMPOUNDING, PRESERVING, DISPENSING OR
   13  RETAILING, OR IN WHICH DRUGS, PRESCRIPTIONS OR POISONS  ARE  COMPOUNDED,
   14  PRESERVED,  DISPENSED OR RETAILED, OR IN WHICH SUCH DRUGS, PRESCRIPTIONS
   15  OR POISONS ARE BY ADVERTISING OR OTHERWISE OFFERED FOR SALE AT RETAIL.
   16    S 291. DISPOSAL OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PROGRAM; ESTABLISHMENT. 1. THERE
   17  IS HEREBY ESTABLISHED IN THE DEPARTMENT A DISPOSAL OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
   18  PROGRAM TO IMPLEMENT A SYSTEM BY WHICH PHARMACIES ACCEPT AND DISPOSE  OF
   19  ANY  UNUSED  PORTIONS  OF  PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PRESCRIBED TO RESIDENTS OF
   20  THIS STATE.
   21    2. THE COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED  AND  DIRECTED  TO  PROMULGATE  SUCH
   22  RULES  AND  REGULATIONS  AS ARE NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS OF
   23  THIS ARTICLE. SUCH RULES AND REGULATIONS  SHALL  ENABLE  PHARMACISTS  TO
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD00982-01-3
       A. 228                              2
    1  ACCEPT AND DISPOSE OF ANY PRESCRIPTION DRUG WHICH IS BROUGHT TO THEM FOR
    2  THE PURPOSE OF DISPOSAL.
    3    S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    4  have become a law.