Bill Text: NY A07195 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows pharmacies to store medication in automated dispensing machines if a contractual agreement is in place with a nursing home or healthcare facility at such facility for the residents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to higher education [A07195 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07195-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7195

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 12, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting pharmacies
          to store prescribed medications in automated dispensing machines

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 6802 of the education law, as
     2  amended by chapter 538 of the laws  of  2001,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  "Pharmacy"  means  (a)  any place in which drugs, prescriptions or
     5  poisons are  possessed  for  the  purpose  of  compounding,  preserving,
     6  dispensing or retailing, or in which drugs, prescriptions or poisons are
     7  compounded,  preserved,  dispensed  or retailed, or in which such drugs,
     8  prescriptions or poisons are by advertising  or  otherwise  offered  for
     9  sale  at retail[.]; and (b) a pharmacy registered by the department, and
    10  based upon a contractual arrangement with a nursing home or  residential
    11  health  care  facility as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of
    12  the public health law, may store prescribed medications at such facility
    13  in an automated dispensing machine and dispense such medications for the
    14  sole use of the facility's residents.
    15    §  2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11279-01-3