Assembly Bill A3731

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Permits certain registered pharmacy technicians to assist a licensed pharmacist in preparing prescriptions in certain facilities

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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-A3731 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6841, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10571
2021-2022: A1090
2023-2024: A2476

2025-A3731 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits certain registered pharmacy technicians to assist a licensed pharmacist in preparing prescriptions in facilities licensed pursuant to articles twenty-eight or thirty-one of the public health law, or a pharmacy owned and operated by such facility, under the direct supervision of a licensed pharmacist employed by such facility.

2025-A3731 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3731
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BRONSON, SIMON, STECK, STIRPE -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in  relation  to  permitting  certain
   registered  pharmacy  technicians  to  assist a licensed pharmacist in
   preparing prescriptions in certain facilities

   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  OR ARTICLE THIRTY-SIX of the public health law, or a phar-
 macy owned and operated by such a facility, under  the  direct  personal
 supervision of a licensed pharmacist employed [in] BY such a facility or
 pharmacy.  Such  facility  OR PHARMACY shall be responsible for ensuring
 that the registered pharmacy technician has received appropriate  train-
 ing  to  ensure  competence  before [he or she] SUCH REGISTERED PHARMACY
 TECHNICIAN  begins  assisting  a  licensed  pharmacist  in  compounding,
 preparing,  labeling,  or  dispensing  of drugs, in accordance with this
 article and article one hundred thirty-seven  of  this  title.  For  the
 purposes  of this article, 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 proce-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05909-01-5

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