Bill Text: NY S06255 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate drug disposal sites for unused controlled substances; defines "chain pharmacy".

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-07-20 - PRINT NUMBER 6255A [S06255 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06255-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6255--A
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 6, 2016
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        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the safe disposal
          of unused controlled substances
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  3343-b  of  the  public health law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4. The commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regu-
     4  lations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate  drug  disposal
     5  sites  for  unused  controlled  substances  in each county of the state,
     6  provided such chain pharmacy has a pharmacy located in a  county.    For
     7  the purposes of this subdivision, "chain pharmacy" means a pharmacy with
     8  more than twenty locations in the state.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13040-07-6