Bill Text: NY A01090 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Permits certain registered pharmacy technicians to assist a licensed pharmacist in preparing prescriptions in facilities licensed pursuant to articles twenty-eight or thirty-one of the public health law, or a pharmacy owned and operated by such facility, under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist employed by such facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-18 - print number 1090b [A01090 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A01090-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1090--B 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 7, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON, STECK, STIRPE, McDONALD, FAHY, GOTT- FRIED, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee -- again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting certain registered pharmacy technicians to assist a licensed pharmacist in preparing prescriptions in certain facilities The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6841 of the education law, as 2 added by chapter 414 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. A registered pharmacy technician may, under the direct personal 4 supervision of a licensed pharmacist, assist such licensed pharmacist, 5 as directed, in compounding, preparing, labeling, or dispensing of drugs 6 used to fill valid prescriptions or medication orders or in compounding, 7 preparing, and labeling in anticipation of a valid prescription or medi- 8 cation order for a patient to be served by the facility, in accordance 9 with article one hundred thirty-seven of this title where such tasks 10 require no professional judgment. Such professional judgment shall only 11 be exercised by a licensed pharmacist. A registered pharmacy technician 12 may only practice in a facility licensed in accordance with article 13 twenty-eight or article thirty-six of the public health law, or a phar- 14 macy owned and operated by such a facility, under the direct personal 15 supervision of a licensed pharmacist employed [in] by such a facility or 16 pharmacy. Such facility or pharmacy shall be responsible for ensuring 17 that the registered pharmacy technician has received appropriate train- 18 ing to ensure competence before he or she begins assisting a licensed 19 pharmacist in compounding, preparing, labeling, or dispensing of drugs, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD04800-04-2A. 1090--B 2 1 in accordance with this article and article one hundred thirty-seven of 2 this title. For the purposes of this article, direct personal super- 3 vision means supervision of procedures based on instructions given 4 directly by a supervising licensed pharmacist who remains in the immedi- 5 ate area where the procedures are being performed, authorizes the proce- 6 dures and evaluates the procedures performed by the registered pharmacy 7 technicians and a supervising licensed pharmacist shall approve all work 8 performed by the registered pharmacy technician prior to the actual 9 dispensing of any drug. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 11 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the amendment and/or 12 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 13 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 14 on or before such effective date.
