Bill Text: NY S00489 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to conditions of registration for nonresident pharmacies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S00489 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00489-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 489--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to conditions of regis- tration for nonresident pharmacies THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6808-b of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 567 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 5. Additional requirements. Nonresident pharmacies registered pursuant 5 to this section shall: 6 a. BE UNDER THE IMMEDIATE SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT OF A PHARMACIST 7 WITH A VALID NEW YORK STATE LICENSE AT ALL HOURS WHEN OPEN; 8 B. Provide a toll-free telephone number that is available during 9 normal business hours and at least forty hours per week, to enable 10 communication between a patient in this state and a pharmacist at the 11 pharmacy who has access to the patient's records; and 12 [b] C. Place such toll-free telephone number on a label affixed to 13 each drug or device container. 14 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03271-03-5