Bill Text: NY A03806 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 3806 (Prior Session Legislation)

Amended

Bill Title: Relates to providing pharmacists access to New York's prescription drug monitoring program resources.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 35-9)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-30 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [A03806 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A03806-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        3806--B
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 27, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. CUSICK, TOBACCO, TITONE, CORWIN, ORTIZ, SCHROE-
         DER, LUPARDO, N. RIVERA,  JAFFEE,  DenDEKKER,  ZEBROWSKI,  WEISENBERG,
         GABRYSZAK,  WEPRIN,  GOTTFRIED  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of A.
         BOYLAND, BRAUNSTEIN, BURLING,  COLTON,  GIBSON,  MALLIOTAKIS,  MARKEY,
         McDONOUGH,  McENENY,  MURRAY,  SMARDZ -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Health -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes
         -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
         and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
         tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
         said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to providing pharma-
         cists access  to  New  York's  prescription  drug  monitoring  program
         resources
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Paragraphs (d) and (e) of subdivision 1 of section 3371  of
    2  the  public  health  law, as amended by chapter 178 of the laws of 2010,
    3  are amended and a new paragraph (f) is added to read as follows:
    4    (d) to a central registry established pursuant to this article; [and]
    5    (e) to a practitioner to inform him or her that a patient may be under
    6  treatment with a controlled substance by another practitioner; OR
    7    (F) TO A PHARMACIST  TO  INFORM  THE  PHARMACIST  THAT  A  PERSON  WHO
    8  PRESENTS  OR  HAS  PRESENTED  A  PRESCRIPTION FOR ONE OR MORE CONTROLLED
    9  SUBSTANCES AT THE PHARMACY MAY HAVE ALSO OBTAINED ONE OR MORE CONTROLLED
   10  SUBSTANCES FROM ANOTHER PHARMACY, WHERE  THE  CIRCUMSTANCES  INDICATE  A
   11  POSSIBILITY OF DRUG ABUSE OR DIVERSION, POTENTIAL HARM TO THE PERSON, OR
   12  SIMILAR GROUNDS.
   13    S 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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