Bill Text: NY A07806 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows pharmacies to store medication in automated dispensing machines if a contractual agreement is in place with a nursing home or healthcare facility at such facility for the residents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A07806 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07806-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7806

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 23, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting  pharmacies
          to store prescribed medications in automated dispensing machines

          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 6802  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  538  of  the  laws  of 2001, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. "Pharmacy" means (a) any place in  which  drugs,  prescriptions  or
     5  poisons  are  possessed  for  the  purpose  of  compounding, preserving,
     6  dispensing or retailing, or in which drugs, prescriptions or poisons are
     7  compounded, preserved, dispensed or retailed, or in  which  such  drugs,
     8  prescriptions  or  poisons  are  by advertising or otherwise offered for
     9  sale at retail[.]; and (b) a pharmacy registered by the department,  and
    10  based  upon a contractual arrangement with a nursing home or residential
    11  health care facility as defined in section twenty-eight hundred  one  of
    12  the public health law, may store prescribed medications at such facility
    13  in an automated dispensing machine and dispense such medications for the
    14  sole use of the facility's residents.
    15    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11860-02-9