Bill Text: NY S05036 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to supervising the transfilling of medical oxygen; requires registered wholesalers who transfill medical oxygen to ensure any person responsible for supervising such process meets certain qualifications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-25 - SIGNED CHAP.590 [S05036 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S05036-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5036

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 22, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAY,  JACKSON,  MANNION -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Higher
          Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the supervision of the
          manufacturing and repacking of certain medical gases or wholesaling of
          respiratory therapy agents

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

     1    Section 1. Section 6808 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
     3    9.  Supervision.  Wholesalers  who  do not repack may designate as the
     4  supervisor a person who presents evidence of the completion of a minimum
     5  of two years of education beyond high school and who has  at  least  two
     6  years  of  experience in the manufacturing, repacking and/or wholesaling
     7  of drugs satisfactory to the state board of  pharmacy.    Establishments
     8  which limit their operation to manufacturing and repacking of compressed
     9  medical  gases  and/or wholesaling of related respiratory therapy agents
    10  shall have each person responsible for  supervising  the  manufacturing,
    11  processing,  packing,  or  holding of a drug product have the education,
    12  training, and experience, or any combination thereof to perform assigned
    13  functions in such a manner as to provide assurance that the drug product
    14  has the safety, identity, strength,  and  purity  that  it  purports  to
    15  possess.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09797-01-3