A03611 Summary:
| BILL NO | A03611 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | Jones |
| COSPNSR | |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Amd §6804, Ed L | |
| Provides that there shall be a representative of the drug or medical device manufacturer industry on the state board of pharmacy. | |
A03611 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3611 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. JONES -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to including a represen- tative of the drug or medical device manufacturer industry on the state board of pharmacy The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of section 6804 of the education 2 law, as amended by chapter 414 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 A state board of pharmacy shall be appointed by the regents on recom- 5 mendation of the commissioner for the purpose of assisting the regents 6 and the department on matters of professional licensing and professional 7 conduct in accordance with section sixty-five hundred eight of this 8 title. The board shall be composed of not less than ten members, nine of 9 whom shall be pharmacists licensed in this state for at least five 10 years, one of whom shall be a representative of either drug or medical 11 device manufacturers and two registered pharmacy technicians. The 12 initial registered pharmacy technician members of the state board of 13 pharmacy need not be licensed prior to their appointment but shall have 14 met all other requirements of licensure pursuant to section sixty-eight 15 hundred forty-two of this title except for filing an application and 16 paying a fee. An executive secretary to the board shall be appointed by 17 the regents on recommendation of the commissioner and shall be a pharma- 18 cist licensed in this state for at least five years. The board shall 19 provide assistance to the department: 20 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 21 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05561-01-5