Bill Text: NY S04247 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Permits the compounding, dispensing and sale of pharmaceuticals to veterinarians.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04247 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S04247-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         4247--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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

        AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  compounding,
          dispensing and sale of pharmaceuticals

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 6807 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
     2  new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
     3    4.  A  pharmacist  may  dispense  drugs, including veterinary-specific
     4  compounded medications,  to  a  veterinarian,  and  a  veterinarian  may
     5  possess and keep in stock for administration and sale, such drugs pursu-
     6  ant to a non-patient specific regimen prescribed or ordered by any prac-
     7  titioner of veterinary medicine licensed pursuant to article one hundred
     8  thirty-five of the education law. Provided, however, that any dispensing
     9  of  drugs  containing  opioids  or  other controlled substances shall be
    10  subject to limitations determined by the department of health.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05751-02-1
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