Permits licensed pharmacists to prescribe and order certain medications for the purposes of inducing abortion or expelling a miscarriage after the completion of a risk assessment questionnaire and delivering a factsheet to the person to whom the medication is being disbursed.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9119
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
September 26, 2025
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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 medications for the
purposes of inducing abortion or expelling a miscarriage
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) A LICENSED PHARMACIST ACTING WITHIN THEIR LAWFUL SCOPE OF
PRACTICE MAY PRESCRIBE AND ORDER MEDICATIONS APPROVED BY THE FEDERAL
FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION FOR THE PURPOSES OF INDUCING ABORTION OR
EXPELLING A MISCARRIAGE.
(B) PRIOR TO DISPENSING ABORTION MEDICATION, THE PHARMACIST SHALL:
(I) PROVIDE A RISK ASSESSMENT QUESTIONNAIRE, DEVELOPED BY THE COMMIS-
SIONER OF HEALTH IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER, TO BE REVIEWED
BY THE PHARMACIST TO IDENTIFY ANY KNOWN RISK FACTORS; AND
(II) PROVIDE A FACT SHEET, DEVELOPED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH
THAT INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO, THE CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR USE OF ABORTION MEDICATION, THE APPROPRIATE METHOD
FOR USING ABORTION MEDICATION, INFORMATION ON THE IMPORTANCE OF FOLLOW-
UP HEALTH CARE, AND HEALTH CARE REFERRAL INFORMATION.
(C) NO PHARMACIST SHALL DISPENSE ABORTION MEDICATION UNDER THIS SUBDI-
VISION WITHOUT RECEIVING TRAINING SATISFACTORY TO THE COMMISSIONER.
(D) NOTHING IN THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL PREVENT A PHARMACIST FROM REFUS-
ING TO PRESCRIBE OR DISPENSE AN ORDER OF ABORTION MEDICATION PURSUANT TO
THIS SUBDIVISION IF, IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL JUDGMENT, POTENTIAL ADVERSE
EFFECTS, INTERACTIONS OR OTHER THERAPEUTIC COMPLICATIONS COULD ENDANGER
THE HEALTH OF THE PATIENT.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13734-01-5
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