Assembly Bill A84

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring prescription drug containers be labeled with a description of the size, shape, color and imprint of the prescription drug it contains

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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
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2023-A84 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8694
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6810, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A5377

2023-A84 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires prescription drug containers be labeled with a description of the size, shape, color and imprint of the prescription drug it contains.

2023-A84 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    84
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SAYEGH,  HUNTER,  SILLITTI  -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring prescription
   drug containers be labeled with a  description  of  the  size,  shape,
   color and imprint of the prescription drug it contains
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6810  of  the  education  law,  as
 amended  by  section  2  of part V of chapter 57 of the laws of 2012, is
 amended to read as follows:
   1. No drug for which a prescription is required by the  provisions  of
 the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act or by the commissioner of health
 shall   be  distributed  or  dispensed  to  any  person  except  upon  a
 prescription written by  a  person  legally  authorized  to  issue  such
 prescription.  Such  drug shall be compounded or dispensed by a licensed
 pharmacist, and no such drug shall be dispensed without affixing to  the
 immediate container in which the drug is sold or dispensed a label bear-
 ing  the  name and address of the owner of the establishment in which it
 was dispensed, the date compounded, the number of the prescription under
 which it is recorded in the pharmacist's prescription files, the name of
 the prescriber,  the  name  and  address  of  the  patient,  A  PHYSICAL
 DESCRIPTION  OF THE DRUG INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE SIZE, SHAPE,
 COLOR, AND IMPRINT OF THE DRUG, and the directions for the  use  of  the
 drug  by  the  patient  as given upon the prescription. All labels shall
 conform to such rules and regulations as promulgated by the commissioner
 pursuant to section sixty-eight hundred twenty-nine of this article. The
 prescribing and dispensing of a drug which  is  a  controlled  substance
 shall  be subject to additional requirements provided in article thirty-
 three of the public health  law.  The  words  "drug"  and  "prescription
 required drug" within the meaning of this article shall not be construed
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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