Bill Text: NY S05940 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to substances containing chorionic gonadotropin expressly intended for administration through implants or injection to cattle or other nonhuman species.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-12-21 - SIGNED CHAP.428 [S05940 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05940-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5940
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 8, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen. VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend  the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  substances
          containing chorionic gonadotropin
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (g) of schedule III  of  section  3306  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 457 of the laws of 2006, is
     3  amended to read as follow:
     4    (g) Chorionic gonadotropin. (1) Unless specifically excepted or unless
     5  listed in another schedule any material, compound, mixture, or  prepara-
     6  tion which contains any amount of chorionic gonadotropin.
     7    (2)  Paragraph one of this subdivision shall not include any substance
     8  containing chorionic gonadotropin expressly intended for  administration
     9  through  implants  or  injection to cattle or other nonhuman species and
    10  that are approved by the federal food and drug administration solely for
    11  such use. Any individual who  knowingly  and  willfully  administers  to
    12  himself  or  another  person,  prescribes, dispenses or distributes such
    13  substances for other than implantation or injection to cattle or  nonhu-
    14  man species shall be subject to the same penalties as a practitioner who
    15  violates   the  provisions  of  this  section  or  any  other  penalties
    16  prescribed by law.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    18  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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