Senate Bill S3286

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Restricts certain practices from remote supervision by licensed pharmacists

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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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2023-S3286 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6841, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S5722

2023-S3286 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits drugs from being dispensed unless a licensed pharmacist has verified that: the package contains the drug to be dispensed, whether the drug is packaged in a child-resistant container, whether a stock container is open and the quantity of the drug to be dispensed.

2023-S3286 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3286 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3286
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. THOMAS, JACKSON -- 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  restricting  certain
   practices from remote supervision by licensed pharmacists
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6841  of  the  education  law,  as
 added by chapter 414 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  A  registered  pharmacy  technician may, under the direct personal
 supervision of a licensed pharmacist, assist such  licensed  pharmacist,
 as directed, in compounding, preparing, labeling, or dispensing of drugs
 used to fill valid prescriptions or medication orders or in compounding,
 preparing, and labeling in anticipation of a valid prescription or medi-
 cation  order  for a patient to be served by the facility, in accordance
 with article one hundred thirty-seven of this  title  where  such  tasks
 require  no professional judgment. Such professional judgment shall only
 be exercised by a licensed pharmacist. A registered pharmacy  technician
 may  only  practice  in  a  facility licensed in accordance with article
 twenty-eight of the public health law, or a pharmacy owned and  operated
 by  such a facility, under the direct personal supervision of a licensed
 pharmacist employed in such a facility or pharmacy. Such facility  shall
 be  responsible for ensuring that the registered pharmacy technician has
 received appropriate training to ensure  competence  before  he  or  she
 begins assisting a licensed pharmacist in compounding, preparing, label-
 ing, or dispensing of drugs, in accordance with this article and article
 one  hundred  thirty-seven of this title. For the purposes of this arti-
 cle, direct personal supervision means supervision of  procedures  based
 on  instructions given directly by a supervising licensed pharmacist who
 remains in the immediate area where the procedures are being  performed,
 authorizes  the procedures and evaluates the procedures performed by the
 registered pharmacy technicians and a  supervising  licensed  pharmacist
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07390-01-3

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