Bill Text: NY S07748 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires at least two licensed pharmacists to be on staff in a pharmacy during any period in which more than two hundred prescriptions are dispensed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-02-13 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S07748 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07748-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7748

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  THOMAS -- 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  requiring  additional
          licensed  pharmacists  to  be on staff during any period in which more
          than two hundred prescriptions are dispensed

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of  section  6808 of the education law is
     2  amended by adding two new paragraphs f-1 and f-2 to read as follows:
     3    f-1. Pharmacy staffing. Every pharmacy,  or  pharmacy  operated  as  a
     4  department  of  a  larger commercial establishment, which dispenses over
     5  two hundred prescriptions in any fourteen  hour  period  shall  have  at
     6  least  two  licensed  pharmacists  on  staff  for the entire time period
     7  during which such prescriptions are dispensed.
     8    f-2. Daily logs. During compliance audits,  a  pharmacy  must  produce
     9  daily  prescription logs detailing the on-duty pharmacists' hourly fills
    10  to an auditor. This log may be used as evidence that  the  pharmacy  had
    11  the  required number of pharmacists on duty in compliance with paragraph
    12  f-1 of this subdivision.
    13    § 2. Section 6808 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    14  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
    15    3.  A  pharmacy  shall  not  enforce  policies  that  interfere with a
    16  pharmacist's professional duties or judgements in  matters  of  pharmacy
    17  ethics  or  laws  pertaining to the practice of pharmacy or the distrib-
    18  ution of drugs or devices.
    19    § 3. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  6808-c  to
    20  read as follows:
    21    §  6808-c.  Protection  of pharmacists. A pharmacist may not be termi-
    22  nated or dismissed from employment for a  refusal  or  failure  to  meet
    23  performance  metrics  or  quotas relating to the number of prescriptions
    24  dispensed where the pharmacist  determines  that  such  practices  would
    25  endanger patient safety or care.
    26    §  4.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    27  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15197-02-0