Bill Text: NY S02286 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no prescription for a controlled substance shall be on a prescription form which authorizes any other drug or controlled substance; provides that the total number of drugs, which may not exceed three, included on a single prescription form shall be indicated in a box on such form; defines controlled substance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION [S02286 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02286-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2286
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   January 18, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prescription forms
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section 6810 of the education law, as
    2  amended by chapter 519 of the laws  of  2002,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    7.  (a)  No  prescription for a drug written in this state by a person
    5  authorized to issue such prescription shall be on  a  prescription  form
    6  which  authorizes  the  dispensing  or  compounding of any other drug OR
    7  CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE. THE TOTAL NUMBER OF DRUGS, WHICH  MAY  NOT  EXCEED
    8  THREE,  INCLUDED  ON  A  SINGLE  FORM MUST BE INDICATED IN A BOX ON EACH
    9  FORM. No [drug] CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE shall be dispensed by a  pharmacist
   10  when such prescription form includes any other drug.
   11    (b)  [With  respect  to  drugs  other  than controlled substances, the
   12  provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to  pharmacists  employed
   13  by  or  providing  services under contract to general hospitals, nursing
   14  homes, residential health care facilities as defined in section  twenty-
   15  eight  hundred  one  of  the  public health law, hospitals as defined in
   16  subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law,  or  develop-
   17  mental  centers or developmental disabilities services offices listed in
   18  subdivision (b) of section 13.17 of the mental hygiene law, who dispense
   19  drugs in the course of said employment or in  the  course  of  providing
   20  such  services  under  contract.  With respect to such pharmacists, each
   21  prescription shall be transcribed on  a  patient  specific  prescription
   22  form.]  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS SUBDIVISION, "CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE"
   23  MEANS ANY SUBSTANCE LISTED IN SCHEDULE I, II, III, IV OR  V  OF  SECTION
   24  THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED SIX OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   25    S 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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