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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9525

                    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

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring pharma-
          cies that are permanently closing to notify customers of such closing

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  280-d to read as follows:
     3    § 280-d. Notice of pharmacy closure. 1. Any pharmacy operating  pursu-
     4  ant  to  article  one  hundred thirty-seven of the education law that is
     5  permanently closing shall provide to customers, upon the  dispensing  of
     6  any  prescription medication to any such customer, written notice of the
     7  date upon which such pharmacy shall be permanently closed.  Such pharma-
     8  cy shall also, to the extent possible, contact all  customers  who  have
     9  filled  prescriptions  within  the  past  twelve months and provide such
    10  customers with notice of the date upon  which  such  pharmacy  shall  be
    11  permanently closed.
    12    2.  The  notice  required  pursuant to subdivision one of this section
    13  shall include, but not be limited to:
    14    (a) the permanent closure date of such pharmacy;
    15    (b) a list of five pharmacies in close physical  proximity,  including
    16  the  contact information for such pharmacies, provided, however, that at
    17  least three out of the five pharmacies  listed  shall  be  independently
    18  owned;
    19    (c)   instructions   on   how  customers  can  transfer  any  existing
    20  prescriptions from the closing pharmacy to one of the five listed  phar-
    21  macies; and
    22    (d)  consequences of failing to transfer a prescription from a closing
    23  pharmacy prior to such pharmacy's closing date.
    24    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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