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Assembly Bill A304

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires pharmacies to stock emergency contraception

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2025-A304 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6450
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §6833, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A573
2019-2020: A2831
2021-2022: A4088, A9855, S8094
2023-2024: A475, S3032

2025-A304 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires pharmacies to keep in stock emergency contraception.

2025-A304 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    304
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  requiring  pharmacies
   to stock 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  6833
 to read as follows:
   § 6833. STOCK EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION. 1. EVERY PHARMACY SHALL POSSESS
 AND KEEP IN STOCK EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION.
   2.  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION" MEANS ONE
 OR MORE OVER THE COUNTER 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.
                                                            LBD00725-01-5

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