STATE OF NEW YORK
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6546
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting the owner-
ship, operation or control of pharmacies by pharmacy benefit managers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6808 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Prohibitions. a. No person, firm, corporation or association shall
4 both directly or indirectly own, operate, control, or direct the opera-
5 tion of the whole or any part of a pharmacy and directly or indirectly
6 own, operate or control the whole or any part of a pharmacy benefit
7 manager.
8 b. No later than three years after this subdivision shall have become
9 a law, any person, firm, corporation or association in violation of
10 paragraph a of this subdivision shall divest from the ownership, opera-
11 tion or control of such pharmacy.
12 c. "Pharmacy benefit manager" shall have the same meaning as defined
13 by section two hundred eighty-a of the public health law.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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