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Assembly Bill A4803

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing pharmacies to store medication in automated dispensing machines

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2025-A4803 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6802, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A7806
2021-2022: A215
2023-2024: A7195

2025-A4803 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows pharmacies to store medication in automated dispensing machines if a contractual agreement is in place with a nursing home or healthcare facility at such facility for the residents.

2025-A4803 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4803
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting pharmacies
   to store prescribed medications in automated dispensing machines
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section 6802 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 538 of the laws  of  2001,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  "Pharmacy"  means  (A)  any place in which drugs, prescriptions or
 poisons are  possessed  for  the  purpose  of  compounding,  preserving,
 dispensing or retailing, or in which drugs, prescriptions or poisons are
 compounded,  preserved,  dispensed  or retailed, or in which such drugs,
 prescriptions or poisons are by advertising  or  otherwise  offered  for
 sale  at retail[.]; AND (B) A PHARMACY REGISTERED BY THE DEPARTMENT, AND
 BASED UPON A CONTRACTUAL ARRANGEMENT WITH A NURSING HOME OR  RESIDENTIAL
 HEALTH  CARE  FACILITY AS DEFINED IN SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF
 THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, MAY STORE PRESCRIBED MEDICATIONS AT SUCH FACILITY
 IN AN AUTOMATED DISPENSING MACHINE AND DISPENSE SUCH MEDICATIONS FOR THE
 SOLE USE OF THE FACILITY'S RESIDENTS.
   §  2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08257-01-5

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