Authorizes the commissioner of health to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate drug disposal sites for unused controlled substances; defines "chain pharmacy".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2857
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the safe disposal
of unused controlled substances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 3343-b of the public health law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. The commissioner is hereby authorized to promulgate rules and regu-
4 lations necessary to require chain pharmacies to operate drug disposal
5 sites for unused controlled substances in each county of the state,
6 provided such chain pharmacy has a pharmacy located in a county. For
7 the purposes of this subdivision, "chain pharmacy" means a pharmacy with
8 more than twenty locations in the state.
9 § 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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