Bill Text: NY S09525 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires pharmacies that are discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance and provide information including locations of other nearby pharmacies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - referred to higher education [S09525 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09525-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9525--B

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- 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  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring pharmacies
          that are discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6811-d
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6811-d.  Notification  of pharmacy discontinuance.  1. Every regis-
     4  tered pharmacy that sells prescription drugs  at  retail  shall  provide
     5  public  notice  at  least  thirty days prior to its discontinuance. Such
     6  notice shall:
     7    (a) be provided, to the extent possible, to customers who have  had  a
     8  prescription filled at the pharmacy within the year prior to its discon-
     9  tinuance through the customer's primary means of communication with such
    10  pharmacy; and
    11    (b) be conspicuously posted at or adjacent to the place in the pharma-
    12  cy  where prescriptions are presented for compounding and dispensing, in
    13  the waiting area for customers, or the area where prescribed  drugs  are
    14  dispensed.
    15    2.  The  notification  required  pursuant  to  subdivision one of this
    16  section shall include, but not be limited to:
    17    (a) the date of such pharmacy's discontinuance;
    18    (b) the names, addresses, and phone numbers of five nearby pharmacies,
    19  provided that, to the extent possible, at least two of the listed  phar-
    20  macies shall be independently owned;
    21    (c) instructions on transferring any existing prescriptions to another
    22  pharmacy; and
    23    (d) information regarding the disposition of prescription records if a
    24  customer  fails  to  transfer  a  prescription  prior to such pharmacy's
    25  discontinuance.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  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.
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