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AB3731 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         3731--A
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BRONSON, SIMON, STECK, STIRPE -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to permitting certain
          registered pharmacy technicians to assist  a  licensed  pharmacist  in
          preparing prescriptions in certain facilities
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6841  of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 414 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  A  registered  pharmacy  technician may, under the direct personal
     4  supervision of a licensed pharmacist, assist such  licensed  pharmacist,
     5  as directed, in compounding, preparing, labeling, or dispensing of drugs
     6  used to fill valid prescriptions or medication orders or in compounding,
     7  preparing, and labeling in anticipation of a valid prescription or medi-
     8  cation  order  for a patient to be served by the facility, in accordance
     9  with article one hundred thirty-seven of this  title  where  such  tasks
    10  require  no professional judgment. Such professional judgment shall only
    11  be exercised by a licensed pharmacist. A registered pharmacy  technician
    12  [may]  shall  only  practice  in  a facility licensed in accordance with
    13  article twenty-eight of the public health law, [or] a pharmacy owned and
    14  operated by such a  facility,  or  a  qualified  home  infusion  therapy
    15  supplier, under the direct personal supervision of a licensed pharmacist
    16  employed  [in]  by  such  a facility or pharmacy. Such facility shall be
    17  responsible for ensuring that the  registered  pharmacy  technician  has
    18  received  appropriate  training  to ensure competence before [he or she]
    19  such registered pharmacy technician begins assisting a licensed  pharma-
    20  cist  in  compounding,  preparing,  labeling, or dispensing of drugs, in
    21  accordance with this article and article  one  hundred  thirty-seven  of
    22  this  title.  For  the  purposes of this article, direct personal super-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05909-02-5

        A. 3731--A                          2
 
     1  vision means supervision  of  procedures  based  on  instructions  given
     2  directly by a supervising licensed pharmacist who remains in the immedi-
     3  ate area where the procedures are being performed, authorizes the proce-
     4  dures  and evaluates the procedures performed by the registered pharmacy
     5  technicians and a supervising licensed pharmacist shall approve all work
     6  performed by the registered pharmacy  technician  prior  to  the  actual
     7  dispensing of any drug.
     8    §  2.  Section  6842  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
     9  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
    10    6. "Qualified home infusion therapy  supplier"  shall  have  the  same
    11  meaning as defined by 42 U.S.C. § 1395x.
    12    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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