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Senate Bill S4676

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring pharmacies to post signs regarding the sale of emergency contraception

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2017-S4676 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §6832, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S6988
2019-2020: S2472

2017-S4676 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring pharmacies to post signs regarding the sale of emergency contraception; establishes civil penalties for failure to post such a sign.

2017-S4676 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S4676 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4676
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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  requiring  pharmacies
   to post signs regarding the sale of emergency contraception
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  6832
 to read as follows:
   §  6832.  DISPLAY  OF INFORMATION RELATING TO EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION.
 1. ANY PHARMACY THAT DOES NOT SELL EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION MUST CONSPIC-
 UOUSLY POST, AT OR ADJACENT TO  EACH  COUNTER  OVER  WHICH  PRESCRIPTION
 DRUGS  ARE SOLD, SIGNAGE INDICATING IN LARGE TYPE THAT EMERGENCY CONTRA-
 CEPTION IS NOT SOLD AT SUCH PHARMACY.
   2. ANY PERSON WHO SHALL VIOLATE THE PROVISIONS OF THIS  SECTION  SHALL
 PAY  A CIVIL PENALTY OF NOT LESS THAN TWO HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS NOR MORE
 THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR THE FIRST OFFENSE AND FOR EACH  SUCCEEDING
 OFFENSE  A  PENALTY  OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN
 SEVEN HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS FOR EACH SUCH VIOLATION. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THIS SECTION, IF ON ANY SINGLE DAY THE REQUIRED SIGNAGE IS NOT DISPLAYED
 IN ACCORDANCE WITH  THIS  SECTION,  IT  SHALL  BE  CONSIDERED  A  SINGLE
 VIOLATION.
   3.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION" MEANS
 ONE OR MORE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, USED SEPARATELY OR IN COMBINATION, TO BE
 ADMINISTERED TO OR SELF-ADMINISTERED BY THE  PATIENT  IN  A  DOSAGE  AND
 MANNER  FOR PREVENTING PREGNANCY WHEN USED AFTER INTERCOURSE, FOUND SAFE
 AND EFFECTIVE FOR THAT USE BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND  DRUG  ADMINIS-
 TRATION,  AND DISPENSED FOR THAT PURPOSE IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROFESSIONAL
 STANDARDS OF PRACTICE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02251-01-7

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