NY State Senate Bill 2025-S7025

Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee

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2025-S7025 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5152
Current Committee:: Senate Higher Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §6841, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:: S8545, A9251

2025-S7025 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes registered pharmacy technicians to administer the same immunizations as licensed pharmacists under direct supervision of such licensed pharmacist.

2025-S7025 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7025 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7025
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. COONEY, BORRELLO, GALLIVAN, ROLISON, SALAZAR, WEIK
   -- 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  registered  pharmacy
   technicians
 
   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  ADMINISTER  THE  SAME  IMMUNIZATIONS  AS  LICENSED  PHARMACISTS ARE
 AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER UNDER THE  DIRECT  SUPERVISION  OF  A  LICENSED
 PHARMACIST  CONSISTENT WITH THE TRAINING AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS IN ARTI-
 CLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN OF THIS TITLE. A registered pharmacy  tech-
 nician  may  only  practice  [in  a facility licensed in accordance with
 article twenty-eight of the public health law, or a pharmacy  owned  and
 operated by such a facility,] under the direct [personal] supervision of
 a  licensed  pharmacist  employed in such a [facility or] pharmacy. Such
 [facility] PHARMACY shall be responsible for ensuring  that  the  regis-
 tered  pharmacy  technician  has received appropriate training to ensure
 competence before [he or she] THE REGISTERED PHARMACY TECHNICIAN  begins
 assisting  a  licensed  pharmacist  in compounding, preparing, labeling,
 ADMINISTERING IMMUNIZATIONS or dispensing of drugs, in  accordance  with
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09213-01-5

 S. 7025                             2
 
 this article and article one hundred thirty-seven of this title. For the
 purposes  of  this  article,  direct [personal] supervision means super-
 vision of procedures based on instructions given directly by a supervis-
 ing  licensed  pharmacist  who  [remains in the immediate area where the
 procedures are being performed] IS IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE, authorizes the
 procedures and evaluates the  procedures  performed  by  the  registered
 pharmacy technicians and a supervising licensed pharmacist shall approve
 all  work  performed  by the registered pharmacy technician prior to the
 actual dispensing of any drug.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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