STATE OF NEW YORK
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7537--A
IN SENATE
May 9, 2016
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
to allowing pharmacies to electronically transfer prescriptions to
other pharmacies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 281 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
3 3-a. A pharmacy that receives an electronic prescription from the
4 person issuing the prescription may, if the prescription has not been
5 dispensed and at the request of the patient or a person authorized to
6 make the request on behalf of the patient, immediately transfer or
7 forward such prescription to an alternative pharmacy designated by the
8 requesting party.
9 § 2. Section 6810 of the education law is amended by adding a new
10 subdivision 10-a to read as follows:
11 10-a. A pharmacy that receives an electronic prescription from the
12 person issuing the prescription may, if the prescription has not been
13 dispensed and at the request of the patient or a person authorized to
14 make the request on behalf of the patient, immediately transfer or
15 forward such prescription to an alternative pharmacy designated by the
16 requesting party.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15146-03-6
