Bill Text: NY A03918 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Allows a prescription for a schedule II, III or IV controlled substance to be partially filled at the request of the prescriber or patient.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-12)
Status: (Vetoed) 2019-11-25 - tabled [A03918 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03918-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3918 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, D'URSO, BRAUNSTEIN, WILLIAMS, SEAWRIGHT, COOK, CAHILL, RIVERA, ARROYO, BLANKENBUSH, RAIA, RA, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO, GOTTFRIED, BLAKE, FAHY, OTIS, HAWLEY -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation to the dispensing of partially filled prescriptions The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 3333 of the public health law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. At the request of the prescriber or the patient, a prescription for 4 a schedule II, schedule III or schedule IV controlled substance may be 5 partially filled within thirty days from the date of issuance of the 6 prescription. The remaining quantity of the prescription may be 7 dispensed separately within thirty days from the date of issue of the 8 prescription, provided that the controlled substance was used in 9 conformity with directions for use and consistent with applicable feder- 10 al regulations and regulations of the commissioner. 11 § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 6816 of the education 12 law, as amended by chapter 710 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read 13 as follows: 14 a. Any person, who, in putting up any drug, medicine, or food or prep- 15 aration used in medical practice, or making up any prescription, or 16 filling any order for drugs, medicines, food or preparation puts any 17 untrue label, stamp or other designation of contents upon any box, 18 bottle or other package containing a drug, medicine, food or preparation 19 used in medical practice, or substitutes or dispenses a different arti- 20 cle for or in lieu of any article prescribed, ordered, or demanded, 21 except where required pursuant to section sixty-eight hundred sixteen-a 22 of this article, or puts up a greater or lesser quantity of any ingredi- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07733-01-9A. 3918 2 1 ent specified in any such prescription, order or demand than that 2 prescribed, ordered or demanded, except where required pursuant to para- 3 graph (g) of subdivision two of section three hundred sixty-five-a of 4 the social services law or allowed pursuant to section thirty-three 5 hundred thirty-three of the public health law, or otherwise deviates 6 from the terms of the prescription, order or demand by substituting one 7 drug for another, except where required pursuant to section sixty-eight 8 hundred sixteen-a of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, 9 however, that except in the case of physicians' prescriptions, nothing 10 herein contained shall be deemed or construed to prevent or impair or in 11 any manner affect the right of an apothecary, druggist, pharmacist or 12 other person to recommend the purchase of an article other than that 13 ordered, required or demanded, but of a similar nature, or to sell such 14 other article in place or in lieu of an article ordered, required or 15 demanded, with the knowledge and consent of the purchaser. Upon a second 16 conviction for a violation of this section the offender must be 17 sentenced to the payment of a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars 18 and may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not to exceed one year. 19 The third conviction of a violation of any of the provisions of this 20 section, in addition to rendering the offender liable to the penalty 21 prescribed by law for a second conviction, shall forfeit any right which 22 he may possess under the law of this state at the time of such 23 conviction, to engage as proprietor, agent, employee or otherwise, in 24 the business of an apothecary, pharmacist, or druggist, or to compound, 25 prepare or dispense prescriptions or orders for drugs, medicines or 26 foods or preparations used in medical practice; and the offender shall 27 be by reason of such conviction disqualified from engaging in any such 28 business as proprietor, agent, employee or otherwise or compounding, 29 preparing or dispensing medical prescriptions or orders for drugs, medi- 30 cines, or foods or preparations used in medical practice. 31 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 32 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate- 33 ly the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 34 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 35 authorized to be made on or before such date.
