STATE OF NEW YORK
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3047
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 28, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. JONES, ORTIZ, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, RAIA, BLANKENBUSH
-- 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 law,
2 as added by chapter 987 of the laws of 1971, is amended to read as
3 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 [nine] ten members,
9 nine of whom shall be pharmacists licensed in this state for at least
10 five years, and one of whom shall be a representative of either drug or
11 medical device manufacturers. An executive secretary to the board shall
12 be appointed by the regents on recommendation of the commissioner and
13 shall be a pharmacist licensed in this state for at least five years.
14 The board shall have power:
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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