Permits licensed pharmacists to prescribe and order certain immunizations, medicines, drugs or therapeutic devices to the extent permitted by rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner of education and the commissioner of health.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9117
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 26, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting licensed
pharmacists to prescribe and order certain immunizations, medicines,
drugs or therapeutic devices
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6801 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. A licensed pharmacist within their lawful scope of practice may
4 prescribe and order immunizations, medicines, drugs or therapeutic
5 devices to the extent permitted by rules and regulations promulgated by
6 the commissioner and the commissioner of health.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect three months after it shall have
8 become a law. Effective immediately, the state education department and
9 the department of health are authorized to promulgate, amend and/or
10 repeal any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
11 section one of this act on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13748-01-5
