Bill Text: NY A09078 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires any chain pharmacy with twenty or more locations to pursue or maintain a non-patient specific prescription with an authorized health care professional to disperse an opioid antagonist to a consumer upon request, or to register with the department of health as an opioid overdose prevention program.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-5)

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-22 - signed chap.65 [A09078 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09078-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9078--B
                                                                Cal. No. 610
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 25, 2016
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        Introduced  by M. of A. MAYER, SKOUFIS, LUPARDO, OTIS, SIMON, ZEBROWSKI,
          CUSICK, JAFFEE, GALEF, DUPREY, RA,  PEOPLES-STOKES,  BRABENEC,  FINCH,
          ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. TENNEY, THIELE -- read once
          and  referred  to  the Committee on Health -- reported from committee,
          advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered reprinted,  retaining
          its  place  on  the  order  of third reading -- again amended on third
          reading, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of  third
          reading
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to requiring any
          chain pharmacy with twenty or more locations to pursue or  maintain  a
          non-patient-specific  prescription  with  an  authorized  health  care
          professional to dispense an  opioid  antagonist  to  a  consumer  upon
          request,  or  to  register  with the department of health as an opioid
          overdose prevention program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  3 of section 3309 of the
     2  public health law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (v) to read as
     3  follows:
     4    (v) Any pharmacy with twenty or more locations  in  the  state,  shall
     5  either:  (1) pursue or maintain a non-patient-specific prescription with
     6  an authorized health care professional to dispense an opioid  antagonist
     7  to a consumer upon request, as authorized by this section; or (2) regis-
     8  ter with the department as an opioid overdose prevention program.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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