Bill Text: NY S01752 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires prescriptions to be typewritten, electronically printed or handwritten in ink or indelible pencil in a legible manner; requires that handwritten prescriptions shall only be written in print letters; prohibits the use of script letters in handwritten prescriptions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S01752 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S01752-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1752
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 5, 2009
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       Introduced  by Sens. STAVISKY, ADAMS, DIAZ, HUNTLEY, KRUEGER, SAMPSON --
         read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to
         the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
         to requiring certain prescriptions to be typewritten
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1.  Subdivision 8 of section 6810 of  the  education  law,  as
    2  added by chapter 626 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
    3    8.  Every  prescription  (whether  or  not for a controlled substance)
    4  written in this state by a person authorized to issue such  prescription
    5  and  containing  the  prescriber's  signature shall, in addition to such
    6  signature[,]: (A) be imprinted or stamped legibly and conspicuously with
    7  the printed name of the prescriber who has signed the prescription.  The
    8  imprinted  or  stamped name of the signing prescriber shall appear in an
    9  appropriate location on the prescription form and shall not  be  entered
   10  in  or  upon  any space or line reserved for the prescriber's signature.
   11  The imprinted or stamped name shall not be employed as a substitute for,
   12  or  fulfill  any  legal  requirement  otherwise   mandating   that   the
   13  prescription  be signed by the prescriber; AND (B) SHALL BE TYPEWRITTEN,
   14  ELECTRONICALLY PRINTED  OR HANDWRITTEN IN INK OR INDELIBLE PENCIL  IN  A
   15  LEGIBLE  MANNER. THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT AFFECT MATTERS REQUIRED BY LAW
   16  TO BE HANDWRITTEN BY THE PRESCRIBER.
   17    S 2. The opening paragraph of subdivision 2 of  section  3332  of  the
   18  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 537 of the laws of 1998, is
   19  amended to read as follows:
   20    Such prescription shall be prepared on  an  official  New  York  state
   21  prescription  form, LEGIBLY written with ink, indelible pencil or, apart
   22  from the practitioner's signature, typewriter or electronic printer AND,
   23  WHERE HANDWRITTEN, SHALL  ONLY  BE  WRITTEN  IN  PRINT  LETTERS.    SUCH
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04398-01-9
       S. 1752                             2
    1  PRESCRIPTIONS  SHALL NOT BE HANDWRITTEN IN SCRIPT LETTERS.  The original
    2  must contain the following:
    3    S  3.  This  act  shall  take effect on the two hundred seventieth day
    4  after it shall have become a law.