STATE OF NEW YORK
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5773
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 28, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the collection
of prescription drug co-payments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of
2 section 367-a of the social services law, as amended by section 16 of
3 part D of chapter 57 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, co-pay-
5 ments charged for each generic prescription drug dispensed shall be one
6 dollar and for each brand name prescription drug dispensed shall be two
7 dollars and fifty cents; provided, however, that the co-payments charged
8 for each brand name prescription drug reimbursed pursuant to subpara-
9 graph (ii) of paragraph (a-1) of subdivision four of section three
10 hundred sixty-five-a of this title shall be one dollar. The payment of
11 such co-payments shall be mandatory at the point of sale in pharmacies.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
13 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that if section 16 of
14 part D of chapter 57 of the laws of 2017 shall not have taken effect on
15 or before such date then section one of this act shall take effect on
16 the same date and in the same manner as such chapter of the laws of 2017
17 takes effect; provided, further, that the amendments to subparagraph
18 (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 367-a of the social
19 services law made by section one of this act shall not affect the repeal
20 of such paragraph and shall be deemed to be repealed therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06785-02-7
