Bill Text: NY A08039 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health to create a prescription drug inventory database that contains a list of all drugs designated as being currently in shortage by the federal food and drug administration's drug shortages database, and a list of pharmacies in the state where each such drug is currently in stock.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A08039 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08039-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8039

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 13, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law,  in  relation  to  directing  the
          department of health to create a prescription drug inventory database

          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  section
     2  278-b to read as follows:
     3    § 278-b. Prescription drug inventory database. 1. The department shall
     4  create  and  maintain an online searchable database that contains a list
     5  of all drugs currently in shortage, and a  list  of  pharmacies  in  the
     6  state where each such drug is currently in stock.
     7    2.  The department shall make the database accessible only to licensed
     8  physicians and pharmacists, and shall authorize  only  licensed  pharma-
     9  cists  to  update  inventory  levels  of drugs currently in shortage, as
    10  listed in the database. Each pharmacy shall update its inventory  levels
    11  of  all drugs currently in shortage, as listed in the database, at least
    12  weekly.
    13    3. The department shall be authorized to promulgate any  rules  and/or
    14  regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this section.
    15    4.  For  the  purposes of this section, the following terms shall have
    16  the following meanings:
    17    (a) "Database" shall mean the database created pursuant to subdivision
    18  one of this section.
    19    (b) "Drugs currently in shortage" shall mean drugs designated as being
    20  currently in shortage by the federal food and drug administration's drug
    21  shortages database.
    22    (c) "Pharmacist" shall mean a person licensed as a pharmacist pursuant
    23  to article one hundred thirty-seven of the education law.
    24    (d) "Pharmacy" shall mean an establishment registered  as  a  pharmacy
    25  pursuant to section sixty-eight hundred eight of the education law.
    26    (e)  "Physician"  shall mean a person licensed as a physician pursuant
    27  to article one hundred thirty-one of the education law.
    28    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13193-02-3