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Senate Bill S10299

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to prescribing sodium chloride nebulizer solution

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2025-S10299 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6527, Ed L

2025-S10299 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes licensed physicians to prescribe and order a non-patient specific order to a licensed pharmacist for sodium chloride nebulizer solution.

2025-S10299 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10299
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 12, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to prescribing sodium
   chloride nebulizer solution
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section  6527 of the education law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
   12. A LICENSED PHYSICIAN MAY PRESCRIBE AND ORDER A NON-PATIENT SPECIF-
 IC ORDER TO A LICENSED PHARMACIST, PURSUANT TO  REGULATIONS  PROMULGATED
 BY THE COMMISSIONER AND CONSISTENT WITH THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, FOR SODI-
 UM CHLORIDE NEBULIZER SOLUTION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15838-01-6

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