STATE OF NEW YORK
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489--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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 conditions of regis-
tration for nonresident pharmacies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 6808-b of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 567 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 5. Additional requirements. Nonresident pharmacies registered pursuant
5 to this section shall:
6 a. Be under the immediate supervision and management of a pharmacist
7 with a valid New York state license at all hours when open;
8 b. Provide a toll-free telephone number that is available during
9 normal business hours and at least forty hours per week, to enable
10 communication between a patient in this state and a pharmacist at the
11 pharmacy who has access to the patient's records; and
12 [b] c. Place such toll-free telephone number on a label affixed to
13 each drug or device container.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03271-03-5
