S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3047
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JONES, ORTIZ, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, RAIA, BLANKENBUSH
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including a represen-
tative of the drug or medical device manufacturer industry on the
state board of pharmacy
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 6804 of the education law,
as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
follows:
A state board of pharmacy shall be appointed by the regents on recom-
mendation of the commissioner for the purpose of assisting the regents
and the department on matters of professional licensing and professional
conduct in accordance with section sixty-five hundred eight of this
title. The board shall be composed of not less than [nine] TEN MEMBERS,
NINE OF WHOM SHALL BE pharmacists licensed in this state for at least
five years, AND ONE OF WHOM SHALL BE A REPRESENTATIVE OF EITHER DRUG OR
MEDICAL DEVICE MANUFACTURERS. An executive secretary to the board shall
be appointed by the regents on recommendation of the commissioner and
shall be a pharmacist licensed in this state for at least five years.
The board shall have power:
§ 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.
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