Senate Bill S3393

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that pharmacies that are discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health 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-S3393 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2278
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §6811-d, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9525, A9769

2025-S3393 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires pharmacies that are discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance and provide information including locations of other nearby pharmacies.

2025-S3393 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3393 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3393
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to requiring pharmacies
   that are discontinuing to notify customers of such discontinuance
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6811-d
 to read as follows:
   §  6811-D.  NOTIFICATION  OF PHARMACY DISCONTINUANCE.  1. EVERY REGIS-
 TERED PHARMACY THAT SELLS PRESCRIPTION DRUGS  AT  RETAIL  SHALL  PROVIDE
 PUBLIC  NOTICE  AT  LEAST  THIRTY DAYS PRIOR TO ITS DISCONTINUANCE. SUCH
 NOTICE SHALL:
   (A) BE PROVIDED, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, TO CUSTOMERS WHO HAVE  HAD  A
 PRESCRIPTION FILLED AT THE PHARMACY WITHIN THE YEAR PRIOR TO ITS DISCON-
 TINUANCE THROUGH THE CUSTOMER'S PRIMARY MEANS OF COMMUNICATION WITH SUCH
 PHARMACY; AND
   (B) BE CONSPICUOUSLY POSTED AT OR ADJACENT TO THE PLACE IN THE PHARMA-
 CY  WHERE PRESCRIPTIONS ARE PRESENTED FOR COMPOUNDING AND DISPENSING, IN
 THE WAITING AREA FOR CUSTOMERS, OR THE AREA WHERE PRESCRIBED  DRUGS  ARE
 DISPENSED.
   2.  THE  NOTIFICATION  REQUIRED  PURSUANT  TO  SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS
 SECTION SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO:
   (A) THE DATE OF SUCH PHARMACY'S DISCONTINUANCE;
   (B) THE NAMES, ADDRESSES, AND PHONE NUMBERS OF FIVE NEARBY PHARMACIES,
 PROVIDED THAT, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, AT LEAST TWO OF THE LISTED  PHAR-
 MACIES SHALL BE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED;
   (C) INSTRUCTIONS ON TRANSFERRING ANY EXISTING PRESCRIPTIONS TO ANOTHER
 PHARMACY; AND
   (D) INFORMATION REGARDING THE DISPOSITION OF PRESCRIPTION RECORDS IF A
 CUSTOMER  FAILS  TO  TRANSFER  A  PRESCRIPTION  PRIOR TO SUCH PHARMACY'S
 DISCONTINUANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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