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Assembly Bill A9117

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits licensed pharmacists to prescribe and order certain immunizations, medicines, drugs or therapeutic devices

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2025-A9117 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6801, Ed L

2025-A9117 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits licensed pharmacists to prescribe and order certain immunizations, medicines, drugs or therapeutic devices to the extent permitted by rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education and the commissioner of health.

2025-A9117 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9117
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to permitting licensed
   pharmacists to prescribe and order certain  immunizations,  medicines,
   drugs or therapeutic devices

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 6801 of the education law is amended  by  adding  a
 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10.  A  LICENSED  PHARMACIST WITHIN THEIR LAWFUL SCOPE OF PRACTICE MAY
 PRESCRIBE AND  ORDER  IMMUNIZATIONS,  MEDICINES,  DRUGS  OR  THERAPEUTIC
 DEVICES  TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY RULES AND REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY
 THE COMMISSIONER AND THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect  three  months  after  it  shall  have
 become  a law. Effective immediately, the state education department and
 the department of health are  authorized  to  promulgate,  amend  and/or
 repeal  any  rule  or  regulation  necessary  for  the implementation of
 section one of this act on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13748-01-5

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