Bill Text: NY A09769 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires pharmacies that are discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance and provide information including locations of other nearby pharmacies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-05 - ordered to third reading rules cal.462 [A09769 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09769-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9769--B

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 5, 2024
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        Introduced  by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, McDONALD -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Higher Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- reported and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  Rules
          Committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  requiring  pharmacies
          that are discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6811-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6811-d. Notification of pharmacy discontinuance.   1.  Every  regis-
     4  tered  pharmacy  that  sells  prescription drugs at retail shall provide
     5  public notice at least thirty days prior  to  its  discontinuance.  Such
     6  notice shall:
     7    (a)  be  provided, to the extent possible, to customers who have had a
     8  prescription filled at the pharmacy within the year prior to its discon-
     9  tinuance through the customer's primary means of communication with such
    10  pharmacy; and
    11    (b) be conspicuously posted at or adjacent to the place in the pharma-
    12  cy where prescriptions are presented for compounding and dispensing,  in
    13  the  waiting  area for customers, or the area where prescribed drugs are
    14  dispensed.
    15    2. The notification required  pursuant  to  subdivision  one  of  this
    16  section shall include, but not be limited to:
    17    (a) the date of such pharmacy's discontinuance;
    18    (b) the names, addresses, and phone numbers of five nearby pharmacies,
    19  provided  that, to the extent possible, at least two of the listed phar-
    20  macies shall be independently owned;
    21    (c) instructions on transferring any existing prescriptions to another
    22  pharmacy; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (d) information regarding the disposition of prescription records if a
     2  customer fails to transfer  a  prescription  prior  to  such  pharmacy's
     3  discontinuance.
     4    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     5  have become a law.