Bill Text: NY S08768 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes nasal sprays in topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents optometrists are authorized to use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2024-11-22 - SIGNED CHAP.516 [S08768 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08768-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8768--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 8, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including nasal sprays
          in topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents optometrists are  author-
          ized to use

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 7101-a of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (e-1) to read as follows:
     3    (e-1)  Nasal  sprays  as  topical  therapeutic  pharmaceutical agents.
     4  Topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents shall also include those drugs
     5  listed in subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (f) of this  subdivision  that
     6  are  administered  through  a  nasal  spray for the treatment of dry eye
     7  disease.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14764-02-4