Bill Text: NY S06698 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Relates to the dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives; authorizes a licensed physician and a certified nurse practitioner to prescribe and order a non-patient specific regimen to a pharmacist licensed and located in the state for the dispensing of self-administered hormonal contraceptives.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-24 - PRINT NUMBER 6698A [S06698 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06698-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6698--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. STAVISKY, BIAGGI, BRISPORT, CLEARE, KENNEDY, MYRIE,
          RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read twice and  ordered  printed,  and  when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education -- recom-
          mitted  to the Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Senate
          Rule  6,  sec.  8  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the dispensing of
          self-administered hormonal contraceptives

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

     1    Section  1.  Section  6527 of the education law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. A licensed physician may prescribe and order a non-patient specif-
     4  ic regimen to a pharmacist licensed and located in the  state,  pursuant
     5  to  regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner, and consistent with
     6  section sixty-eight hundred seven of this title, for dispensing self-ad-
     7  ministered hormonal contraceptives as  defined  in  section  sixty-eight
     8  hundred two of this title.
     9    §  2.  Section  6802  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    10  subdivision 29 to read as follows:
    11    29. "Self-administered hormonal contraceptives", for  the  purpose  of
    12  section  sixty-eight  hundred seven of this article, means self-adminis-
    13  tered contraceptive medications or devices approved by the federal  Food
    14  and  Drug Administration to prevent pregnancy by using hormones to regu-
    15  late or prevent ovulation, and includes  oral  hormonal  contraceptives,
    16  hormonal contraceptive vaginal rings and hormonal contraceptive patches.
    17    §  3.  Section  6807  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    18  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    19     4. a. A pharmacist licensed and located in the state may  dispense  a
    20  non-patient  specific  regimen  of self-administered hormonal contracep-
    21  tives, prescribed or ordered by a licensed physician or certified  nurse

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01980-05-2

        S. 6698--A                          2

     1  practitioner,  pursuant  to  rules  and  regulations  promulgated by the
     2  commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of this subdivision.
     3    b.  Prior to dispensing self-administered hormonal contraceptives to a
     4  patient, and at a minimum of every  twelve  months  for  each  returning
     5  patient, the pharmacist shall:
     6    (i)  provide  the  patient with a self-screening risk assessment ques-
     7  tionnaire, developed by the commissioner of health and made available in
     8  English and the top six languages spoken in the state, according to  the
     9  latest  available  data from the United States Census Bureau, to be used
    10  by the patient to help the patient select an  appropriate  self-adminis-
    11  tered hormonal contraceptive; and
    12    (ii)  provide  the patient with a fact sheet, developed by the commis-
    13  sioner of health and made available in English and the top six languages
    14  spoken in the state, according to the latest  available  data  from  the
    15  United  States  Census  Bureau, that includes but is not limited to, the
    16  clinical considerations and recommendations for use of the self-adminis-
    17  tered hormonal contraceptive, the  appropriate  method  for  using  such
    18  hormonal  contraceptive,  information  on  the  importance  of follow-up
    19  health care, and health care referral information.
    20    c. The  commissioner  may  require  pharmacists  to  undergo  training
    21  related to the provisions of this subdivision.
    22    d. A pharmacist shall notify the patient's primary health care practi-
    23  tioner,  within  seventy-two  hours  of  dispensing  a self-administered
    24  hormonal contraceptive, that such self-administered hormonal  contracep-
    25  tive  has  been dispensed. If the patient does not have a primary health
    26  care practitioner, or is unable to provide contact information for their
    27  primary health care  practitioner,  the  pharmacist  shall  provide  the
    28  patient  with  a  written  record  of  the contraceptives dispensed, and
    29  advise the patient to consult an appropriate health care practitioner.
    30    e. Nothing in this subdivision shall prevent a pharmacist from  refus-
    31  ing  to  dispense pursuant to this subdivision if, in their professional
    32  judgment, potential adverse effects, interactions or  other  therapeutic
    33  complications could endanger the health of the patient.
    34    §  4.  Section  6909  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
    35  subdivision 11 to read as follows:
    36    11. A certified nurse practitioner may prescribe and order  a  non-pa-
    37  tient  specific  regimen  to  a  pharmacist  licensed and located in the
    38  state, pursuant to regulations  promulgated  by  the  commissioner,  and
    39  consistent  with  section  sixty-eight  hundred seven of this title, for
    40  dispensing  self-administered  hormonal  contraceptives  as  defined  in
    41  section sixty-eight hundred two of this title.
    42    §  5.  This  act shall take effect eighteen months after it shall have
    43  become a law. Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment  and/or
    44  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    45  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    46  on or before such effective date.
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