Assembly Bill A480

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the dispensing of contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A480 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6527, 6807, 6827, 6909 & 6951, add §6505-d, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A8707
2017-2018: A2632
2021-2022: A1125
2023-2024: A1060

2019-A480 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the dispensing of contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered; authorizes a licensed physician, certified nurse practitioner, and a licensed midwife to prescribe and order a non-patient specific regimen to a professional nurse and a licensed pharmacist for the dispensing of contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered.

2019-A480 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    480
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, THIELE, GALEF, COOK, RIVERA,
   SEAWRIGHT, JAFFEE,  DINOWITZ,  BICHOTTE,  BARRETT  --  read  once  and
   referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the dispensing of
   contraceptive drugs and devices that are self-administered
 
   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
 6505-d to read as follows:
   § 6505-D. NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC REGIMEN. A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC REGIMEN
 PRESCRIBED AND ORDERED UNDER THIS  CHAPTER  SHALL  BE  DEEMED  TO  BE  A
 PRESCRIPTION FOR ALL PURPOSES OF THE INSURANCE LAW.
   §  2.  Section  6527  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9. A LICENSED PHYSICIAN MAY PRESCRIBE AND ORDER A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC
 REGIMEN TO A LICENSED PHARMACIST, FOR DISPENSING CONTRACEPTIVE DRUGS AND
 DEVICES THAT ARE SELF-ADMINISTERED AND APPROVED BY THE FEDERAL FOOD  AND
 DRUG  ADMINISTRATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF PRAC-
 TICE AND SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION SIXTY-EIGHT HUNDRED SEVEN  OF  THIS
 TITLE.
   §  3.  Subdivision 3 of section 6807 of the education law, as added by
 chapter 573 of the laws of 1999, is amended and a new subdivision  4  is
 added to read as follows:
   3. A pharmacist may dispense drugs and devices to a registered profes-
 sional nurse, and a registered professional nurse may possess and admin-
 ister,  drugs  and  devices,  pursuant to a non-patient specific regimen
 prescribed or ordered by a  licensed  physician,  LICENSED  MIDWIFE,  or
 certified nurse practitioner, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the
 commissioner and the public health law.

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

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