Bill Text: NY A09902 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes nasal sprays in topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents optometrists are authorized to use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to higher education [A09902 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09902-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9902

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including nasal sprays
          in  topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents optometrists are author-
          ized to use

          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 7101-a of the education law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (e-1) to read as follows:
     3    (e-1) Nasal  sprays  as  topical  therapeutic  pharmaceutical  agents.
     4  Topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agents shall also include those drugs
     5  listed  in  subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (f) of this subdivision that
     6  are administered through a nasal spray for  the  treatment  of  dry  eye
     7  disease.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14764-03-4