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Assembly Bill A8767

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes a licensed pharmacist to administer a United States Food and Drug Administration-approved reversible progestin-only contraceptive injection

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2025-A8767 (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6801, Ed L

2025-A8767 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes a licensed pharmacist to administer a United States Food and Drug Administration-approved reversible progestin-only contraceptive injection.

2025-A8767 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8767
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing a licensed
   pharmacist  to  administer  a  United States Food and Drug Administra-
   tion-approved reversible progestin-only contraceptive injection

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  8  of  section 6801 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 746 of the laws  of  2023,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   8.  A  licensed  pharmacist  within their lawful scope of practice may
 administer injectable medications and medications required for emergency
 treatment of anaphylaxis related to  such  administration,  pursuant  to
 section  six  thousand eight hundred two of this article, for the treat-
 ment of mental health and substance use disorder OR ADMINISTER A  UNITED
 STATES  FOOD  AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION-APPROVED REVERSIBLE PROGESTIN-ONLY
 CONTRACEPTIVE INJECTION, as prescribed or ordered by a licensed prescri-
 ber, acting within their scope of practice in this state and in  accord-
 ance  with regulations, including but not limited to regulations promul-
 gated by the commissioner in consultation with any other state agencies,
 as necessary.
   § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
 law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any
 rule  or  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its
 effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
 effective date.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13205-01-5

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