Senate Bill S4587

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to prescription labels for mifepristone and misoprostol

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules 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-S4587 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5285
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6807 & 6810, Ed L (as proposed in S.36-A and A.2145-A); add §280-d, Pub Health L

2025-S4587 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides the prescription label for mifepristone or misoprostol may include the address of the dispensing health care practice and shall include the address of the prescribing health care practice at the prescriber's request; provides that a health care prescriber shall inform a patient if such prescriber has included or has requested to include the name or address of the prescribing health care practice instead of the name of such prescriber on the prescription label when prescribing mifepristone or misoprostol.

2025-S4587 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4587 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4587
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
   to prescription labels for mifepristone and misoprostol
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph  b-1  of  subdivision  1 of section 6807 of the
 education law, as added by a chapter of the laws of  2025  amending  the
 education law relating to the labeling of mifepristone, misoprostol, and
 their  generic alternatives, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 36-A and A. 2145-A, is amended to read as follows:
   b-1. Notwithstanding paragraph b of  this  section,  the  prescription
 label  for  mifepristone[,]  OR misoprostol[, and their generic alterna-
 tives] may include the name OR ADDRESS of  the  dispensing  health  care
 practice instead of the name of the dispenser.
   § 2. Subdivision 1-a of section 6810 of the education law, as added by
 a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the education law relating to the
 labeling  of  mifepristone, misoprostol, and their generic alternatives,
 as proposed in legislative bills numbers  S.  36-A  and  A.  2145-A,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1-a.   Notwithstanding   subdivision  one  of  this  section,  at  the
 prescriber's request, the  prescription  label  for  mifepristone[,]  OR
 misoprostol[, and their generic alternatives may] SHALL include the name
 OR  ADDRESS  of the prescribing health care practice instead of the name
 of the prescriber.
   § 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 280-d to
 read as follows:
   § 280-D. PATIENT NOTIFICATION OF PRESCRIPTION LABEL CHANGE.  A  HEALTH
 CARE PRESCRIBER SHALL INFORM THE PATIENT IF SUCH PRESCRIBER HAS INCLUDED
 OR  HAS  REQUESTED  TO  INCLUDE  THE  NAME OR ADDRESS OF THE PRESCRIBING
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09082-01-5
 S. 4587                             2

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