Bill Text: NY S04544 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 4544 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to including certain doses of pseudoephedrine as a controlled substance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04544 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S04544-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        4544--A
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 26, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including certain
         doses of pseudoephedrine as a controlled substance
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  (d)  of  schedule  II of section 3306 of the
    2  public health law, is amended by adding a new paragraph  6  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    (6) 120 MILLIGRAMS OR MORE OF PSEUDOEPHEDRINE.
    5    S  2.  The provisions of paragraph 6 of subdivision (d) of schedule II
    6  of section 3306 of the public health law shall not apply to a  wholesale
    7  drug distributor licensed and regulated by the New York board of pharma-
    8  cy  and registered with and regulated by the United States drug enforce-
    9  ment administration. Such distributors are exempt from storage,  report-
   10  ing,  recordkeeping,  and  physical  security  control  requirements for
   11  schedule II controlled substances  containing  any  material,  compound,
   12  mixture, or preparation that contains any quantity of pseudoephedrine.
   13    S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
   14  have become a law; provided however,  that  effective  immediately,  the
   15  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
   16  for the implementation of this act on its effective date  is  authorized
   17  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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