Senate Bill S36

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the labeling of medication abortion prescription drugs

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Archive: Last 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-S36 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6807 & 6810, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9945

2025-S36 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits prescription labels for medication abortion prescription drugs to include the name of the prescribing health care practice instead of the name of the prescriber at the prescriber's request.

2025-S36 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    36
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. MAYER, MYRIE -- 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 the labeling of  medi-
   cation abortion prescription drugs

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 1 of section 6807  of  the  education  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph b-1 to read as follows:
   B-1.   (1)    NOTWITHSTANDING    PARAGRAPH  B  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE
 PRESCRIPTION LABEL FOR  MEDICATION  ABORTION PRESCRIPTION   DRUGS    MAY
 INCLUDE  THE  NAME OF THE DISPENSING HEALTH CARE PRACTICE INSTEAD OF THE
 NAME OF THE DISPENSER.
   (2)    FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  PARAGRAPH,  "MEDICATION  ABORTION
 PRESCRIPTION  DRUGS"  MEANS  SUBSTANCES  USED  IN  THE COURSE OF MEDICAL
 TREATMENT INTENDED TO INDUCE THE TERMINATION OF A  PREGNANCY  INCLUDING,
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MIFEPRISTONE AND MISOPROSTOL.
   §  2.    Section  6810 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
   1-A. (A) NOTWITHSTANDING SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS  SECTION,  AT  THE
 PRESCRIBER'S  REQUEST,  THE  PRESCRIPTION  LABEL FOR MEDICATION ABORTION
 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS MAY INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE PRESCRIBING  HEALTH  CARE
 PRACTICE INSTEAD OF THE NAME OF THE PRESCRIBER.
   (B)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,  "MEDICATION  ABORTION
 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS" MEANS SUBSTANCES  USED  IN  THE  COURSE  OF  MEDICAL
 TREATMENT  INTENDED  TO INDUCE THE TERMINATION OF A PREGNANCY INCLUDING,
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MIFEPRISTONE AND MISOPROSTOL.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00159-01-5

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