Senate Bill S5352

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires notification by a prescriber or pharmacist of the substitution of one generic drug product for another generic drug product

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S5352 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6810, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8633

2025-S5352 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires notification by a prescriber or pharmacist of the substitution of one generic drug product for another generic drug product; requires both oral and written notification.

2025-S5352 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5352 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5352
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  notification  of  the
   substitution of one generic drug product for another generic drug
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section  6810  of  the  education  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (b-1) to read as follows:
   (B-1)  THE  PRESCRIBER  OR PHARMACIST SHALL INFORM THE PATIENT WHETHER
 THEY HAVE PRESCRIBED OR SUBSTITUTED A  DIFFERENT  GENERIC  DRUG  PRODUCT
 FROM  THE  GENERIC  DRUG  PRODUCT  THE  PATIENT HAS PREVIOUSLY RECEIVED.
 NOTIFICATION REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL BE PROVIDED  BOTH
 WRITTEN AND ORALLY.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09499-01-5

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