Senate Bill S7115

Vetoed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the dispensing of partially filled prescriptions

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

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2019-S7115 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9034
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3333, Pub Health L; amd §6816, Ed L

2019-S7115 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows a prescription for a schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance to be partially filled at the request of the prescriber or patient.

2019-S7115 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S7115 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7115
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
   to the dispensing of partially filled prescriptions
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 3333 of the public health law is amended by adding
 a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
   6. AT THE REQUEST OF THE PRESCRIBER OR THE PATIENT, A PRESCRIPTION FOR
 A SCHEDULE II, SCHEDULE  III,  SCHEDULE  IV  OR  SCHEDULE  V  CONTROLLED
 SUBSTANCE  MAY  BE PARTIALLY FILLED PROVIDED THAT THE PARTIAL FILLING IS
 RECORDED IN THE SAME MANNER AS A REFILL. THE REMAINING QUANTITY  OF  THE
 PRESCRIPTION  MAY  BE  DISPENSED SEPARATELY ONLY ONCE IN CONFORMITY WITH
 DIRECTIONS FOR USE.
   § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section  6816  of  the  education
 law,  as  amended by chapter 710 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read
 as follows:
   a. Any person, who, in putting up any drug, medicine, or food or prep-
 aration used in medical practice, or  making  up  any  prescription,  or
 filling  any  order  for  drugs, medicines, food or preparation puts any
 untrue label, stamp or other  designation  of  contents  upon  any  box,
 bottle or other package containing a drug, medicine, food or preparation
 used  in medical practice, or substitutes or dispenses a different arti-
 cle for or in lieu of any  article  prescribed,  ordered,  or  demanded,
 except  where required pursuant to section sixty-eight hundred sixteen-a
 of this article, or puts up a greater or lesser quantity of any ingredi-
 ent specified in any  such  prescription,  order  or  demand  than  that
 prescribed, ordered or demanded, except where required pursuant to para-
 graph  (g)  of  subdivision two of section three hundred sixty-five-a of
 the social services law OR  ALLOWED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  THIRTY-THREE
 HUNDRED  THIRTY-THREE  OF  THE  PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, or otherwise deviates
 from the terms of the prescription, order or demand by substituting  one
 drug  for another, except where required pursuant to section sixty-eight
 
              

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