Bill Text: NY A02857 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate drug disposal sites for unused controlled substances; defines "chain pharmacy".

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A02857 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02857-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2857
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Health
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the safe disposal
          of unused controlled substances
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  3343-b  of  the  public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. The commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regu-
     4  lations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate  drug  disposal
     5  sites  for  unused  controlled  substances  in each county of the state,
     6  provided such chain pharmacy has a pharmacy located in a  county.    For
     7  the purposes of this subdivision, "chain pharmacy" means a pharmacy with
     8  more than twenty locations in the state.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05279-01-9
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