Bill Text: NY S05091 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 5091 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Requires pharmacies to make reasonable attempts to notify patients within seven days by phone or mail of class I drug recalls where such patients are currently taking such recalled drugs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2019-10-18 - signed chap.379 [S05091 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05091-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5091--B
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      April 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring pharmacies
          to make reasonable attempts to notify patients of certain drug recalls
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6811-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6811-c.  Patient notification of recalled drugs. 1. For purposes of
     4  this section the term "class I recall" shall mean a situation  in  which
     5  the United States food and drug administration deems there is reasonable
     6  probability  that  the  use  of  or exposure to a violative product will
     7  cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
     8    2. Where there has been a class I recall of a prescription drug, phar-
     9  macies shall make a reasonable attempt to notify all patients that  have
    10  been  prescribed  and  who  are  currently  taking  such  recalled  drug
    11  dispensed from such pharmacy by phone or by mail within  three  days  of
    12  the  pharmacy being notified by the United States food and drug adminis-
    13  tration, a manufacturer, a wholesaler or by other notice of such recall.
    14    3. The notification required by this section may  be  provided  by  an
    15  individual  pharmacy  or  by  a central office in the case of a pharmacy
    16  that is part of a chain.
    17    § 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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