Bill Text: NY A00678 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows pharmacy technicians to practice in any pharmacy under the supervision of a pharmacist.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to higher education [A00678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00678-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           678

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SOLAGES, HEVESI, SEAWRIGHT, LAVINE, BLUMENCRANZ,
          RAMOS, WOERNER -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Higher
          Education

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to allowing pharmacy
          technicians to practice in any pharmacy under  the  supervision  of  a
          pharmacist

          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 6841  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 414 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  A  registered  pharmacy  technician may, under the direct personal
     4  supervision of a licensed pharmacist, assist such  licensed  pharmacist,
     5  as directed, in compounding, preparing, labeling, or dispensing of drugs
     6  used to fill valid prescriptions or medication orders or in compounding,
     7  preparing, and labeling in anticipation of a valid prescription or medi-
     8  cation  order  for a patient to be served by the facility, in accordance
     9  with article one hundred thirty-seven of this  title  where  such  tasks
    10  require  no professional judgment. Such professional judgment shall only
    11  be exercised by a licensed pharmacist. A registered pharmacy  technician
    12  may  only  practice  [in  a facility licensed in accordance with article
    13  twenty-eight of the public health law, or a pharmacy owned and  operated
    14  by such a facility,] under the direct personal supervision of a licensed
    15  pharmacist  employed  in  such a [facility or] pharmacy. Such [facility]
    16  pharmacy shall be responsible for ensuring that the registered  pharmacy
    17  technician has received appropriate training to ensure competence before
    18  [he  or  she begins assisting] beginning to assist a licensed pharmacist
    19  in compounding, preparing, labeling, or dispensing of drugs, in  accord-
    20  ance  with  this  article  and  article one hundred thirty-seven of this
    21  title. For the purposes of this  article,  direct  personal  supervision
    22  means  supervision of procedures based on instructions given directly by

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02176-01-5
        A. 678                              2

     1  a supervising licensed pharmacist who  remains  in  the  immediate  area
     2  where  the procedures are being performed, authorizes the procedures and
     3  evaluates the procedures performed by the  registered  pharmacy  techni-
     4  cians  and  a  supervising  licensed  pharmacist  shall approve all work
     5  performed by the registered pharmacy  technician  prior  to  the  actual
     6  dispensing of any drug.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.