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                                   7869
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 11, 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 prescription labeling
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 6807 of the  educa-
 tion  law,  as amended by chapter 538 of the laws of 2001, is amended to
 read as follows:
   b. Any physician, dentist, veterinarian or other licensed health  care
 provider  legally  authorized to prescribe drugs under this title who is
 not the owner of a pharmacy or who is not in the employ of  such  owner,
 from  supplying  [his]  THEIR patients with such drugs as the physician,
 dentist, veterinarian or other licensed  health  care  provider  legally
 authorized   to  prescribe  drugs  under  this  title  deems  proper  in
 connection with [his] THEIR practice, provided, however, that  all  such
 drugs  shall  be  dispensed  in  a  container  labeled with the name and
 address of the dispenser and patient, directions for use, [and] date  of
 delivery,  AND SYMPTOM OR PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE DRUG IS BEING PRESCRIBED
 IF THE PATIENT REQUESTS SUCH INFORMATION BE DISCLOSED ON  THE  LABEL  TO
 THE  HEALTH  CARE  PROVIDER WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OFF LABEL PRESCRIPTION
 USE, and in addition, such  drug  shall  bear  a  label  containing  the
 proprietary  or  brand name of the drug and, if applicable, the strength
 of the contents, unless the person issuing the prescription specifically
 states on the prescription in [his] THEIR own handwriting, that the name
 of the drug and the strength thereof should not  appear  on  the  label;
 provided  further  that  if  such  drugs are controlled substances, they
 shall be dispensed pursuant to the requirements of article  thirty-three
 of the public health law;
   §  2.  Section  6810  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 1-b to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   1-B. UPON THE PATIENT'S REQUEST TO THE PRACTITIONER, THE  PRESCRIPTION
 LABEL  SHALL  INCLUDE THE SYMPTOM OR PURPOSE FOR WHICH THE DRUG IS BEING
 PRESCRIBED WITH THE EXCEPTION OF OFF LABEL PRESCRIPTION USE.
   §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.