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Assembly Bill A8956

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits the compounding, dispensing and sale of veterinary-specific pharmaceuticals to veterinarians by pharmacists

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2025-A8956 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S13
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6807, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10220
2017-2018: A3440, S4360
2019-2020: A2915, S4343
2021-2022: A6704, S4247
2023-2024: A4505, S2314

2025-A8956 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the compounding, dispensing and sale of veterinary-specific pharmaceuticals to veterinarians by pharmacists.

2025-A8956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8956
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  the  compounding,
   dispensing and sale of pharmaceuticals
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 6807 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4.  A  PHARMACIST  MAY  DISPENSE  DRUGS, INCLUDING VETERINARY-SPECIFIC
 COMPOUNDED MEDICATIONS,  TO  A  VETERINARIAN,  AND  A  VETERINARIAN  MAY
 POSSESS AND KEEP IN STOCK FOR ADMINISTRATION AND SALE, SUCH DRUGS PURSU-
 ANT TO A NON-PATIENT SPECIFIC REGIMEN PRESCRIBED OR ORDERED BY ANY PRAC-
 TITIONER OF VETERINARY MEDICINE LICENSED PURSUANT TO ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED
 THIRTY-FIVE  OF  THIS  TITLE.  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT ANY DISPENSING OF
 DRUGS CONTAINING OPIOIDS OR OTHER CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES SHALL BE SUBJECT
 TO LIMITATIONS DETERMINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00036-01-5

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