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Assembly Bill A7595

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires pharmacies to post notice of the professional misconduct complaint process

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2011-A7595 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1033
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6826, Ed L; amd §276-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
S2484

2011-A7595 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires pharmacies to post notice of the professional misconduct complaint process.

2011-A7595 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7595

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 10, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Higher Education

AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
  to  providing  public  notice of the education department professional
  misconduct complaint process relating to pharmacies

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section 6826 of the education law, as
amended by chapter 293 of the laws of 2005, is amended and a new  subdi-
vision 4-a is added to read as follows:
  4.  Pharmacies  shall  have  a  sign notifying people of BOTH: (A) the
availability of the drug retail price list and the availability  of  the
department  of  health  prescription drug retail price list database and
the web address of that  database,  AND  (B)  THE  JURISDICTION  OF  THE
DEPARTMENT  TO  ACCEPT  AND INVESTIGATE COMPLAINTS ABOUT ALLEGED PROFES-
SIONAL MISCONDUCT, INCLUDING THE PRESCRIPTION DISPENSING PROCESS,  COUN-
SELING  RELATED  ISSUES  AND  LICENSURE  ISSUES. EACH SUCH SIGN SHALL BE
conspicuously posted at or adjacent to the place in the  pharmacy  where
prescriptions are presented for compounding and dispensing, in the wait-
ing area for customers, or in the area where prescribed drugs are deliv-
ered.
  4-A. THE NOTICE REQUIRED PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (B) OF SUBDIVISION FOUR
OF THIS SECTION SHALL INCLUDE THE TELEPHONE NUMBER, INTERNET WEB ADDRESS
AND  ELECTRONIC MAIL ADDRESS OF THE DEPARTMENT.  PROVIDED, FURTHER, THAT
THE PROVISIONS OF SUCH PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY  PHARMACY  IN  A
HOSPITAL  OR  RESIDENTIAL  HEALTH  CARE  FACILITY, AS DEFINED IN SECTION
TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, WHICH DISPENSES DRUGS
TO PATIENTS ADMITTED TO SUCH HOSPITAL OR FACILITY.
  S 2. Section 276-a of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 3-a to read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD04765-01-1

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