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A03918 Summary:

BILL NOA03918
 
SAME ASSAME AS S01813
 
SPONSORMcDonald (MS)
 
COSPNSRD'Urso, Braunstein, Williams, Seawright, Cook, Cahill, Rivera, Arroyo, Blankenbush, Raia, Ra, Lawrence, Morinello, Gottfried, Blake, Fahy, Otis, Hawley, Taylor, Sayegh, Ashby, Pichardo, Smullen, Walczyk, Stirpe, Byrne, Griffin
 
MLTSPNSRGalef, Giglio, Simon, Tague, Thiele
 
Amd §3333, Pub Health L; amd §6816, Ed L
 
Allows a prescription for a schedule II, III or IV controlled substance to be partially filled at the request of the prescriber or patient.
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A03918 Actions:

BILL NOA03918
 
01/31/2019referred to higher education
05/07/2019reported
05/09/2019advanced to third reading cal.289
05/14/2019passed assembly
05/14/2019delivered to senate
05/14/2019REFERRED TO HEALTH
06/17/2019SUBSTITUTED FOR S1813
06/17/20193RD READING CAL.1104
06/17/2019PASSED SENATE
06/17/2019RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
11/19/2019delivered to governor
11/25/2019vetoed memo.151
11/25/2019tabled
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A03918 Committee Votes:

HIGHER EDUCATION Chair:Glick DATE:05/07/2019AYE/NAY:23/0 Action: Favorable
GlickAyeSmithAye
GottfriedAyeFitzpatrickAye
EnglebrightAyeGarbarinoAye
CahillExcusedAshbyAye
LiftonAyeReillyAye
CusickAyeSalkaAye
LupardoAyeWalczykAye
StirpeAye
FahyAye
PichardoAye
SimonExcused
McDonaldAye
BichotteExcused
HyndmanAye
EpsteinAye
GriffinAye
RomeoAye
McMahonAye
ButtenschonAye

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A03918 Floor Votes:

DATE:05/14/2019Assembly Vote  YEA/NAY: 141/0
Yes
Abbate
Yes
Crespo
ER
Gantt
Yes
LiPetri
ER
Perry
Yes
Simon
Yes
Abinanti
Yes
Crouch
Yes
Garbarino
Yes
Lupardo
Yes
Pheffer Amato
Yes
Simotas
ER
Arroyo
Yes
Cruz
Yes
Giglio
Yes
Magnarelli
Yes
Pichardo
Yes
Smith
Yes
Ashby
Yes
Cusick
Yes
Glick
Yes
Malliotakis
Yes
Pretlow
Yes
Smullen
Yes
Aubry
Yes
Cymbrowitz
Yes
Goodell
Yes
Manktelow
Yes
Quart
Yes
Solages
Yes
Barclay
ER
Davila
Yes
Gottfried
Yes
McDonald
Yes
Ra
Yes
Stec
Yes
Barnwell
Yes
De La Rosa
Yes
Griffin
Yes
McDonough
Yes
Raia
Yes
Steck
Yes
Barrett
Yes
DenDekker
Yes
Gunther
Yes
McMahon
Yes
Ramos
Yes
Stern
Yes
Barron
Yes
DeStefano
Yes
Hawley
Yes
Mikulin
Yes
Raynor
Yes
Stirpe
Yes
Benedetto
Yes
Dickens
Yes
Hevesi
Yes
Miller B
Yes
Reilly
Yes
Tague
ER
Bichotte
Yes
Dilan
Yes
Hunter
Yes
Miller MG
Yes
Reyes
Yes
Taylor
ER
Blake
Yes
Dinowitz
Yes
Hyndman
Yes
Miller ML
ER
Richardson
Yes
Thiele
Yes
Blankenbush
Yes
DiPietro
Yes
Jacobson
Yes
Montesano
Yes
Rivera
Yes
Titus
Yes
Brabenec
Yes
D'Urso
Yes
Jaffee
Yes
Morinello
Yes
Rodriguez
ER
Vanel
Yes
Braunstein
Yes
Eichenstein
Yes
Jean-Pierre
Yes
Mosley
Yes
Romeo
Yes
Walczyk
Yes
Bronson
Yes
Englebright
Yes
Johns
Yes
Niou
Yes
Rosenthal D
Yes
Walker
Yes
Buchwald
Yes
Epstein
Yes
Jones
Yes
Nolan
Yes
Rosenthal L
Yes
Wallace
Yes
Burke
Yes
Fahy
Yes
Joyner
Yes
Norris
Yes
Rozic
Yes
Walsh
Yes
Buttenschon
Yes
Fall
ER
Kim
Yes
O'Donnell
Yes
Ryan
Yes
Weinstein
Yes
Byrne
Yes
Fernandez
Yes
Kolb
Yes
Ortiz
Yes
Salka
Yes
Weprin
Yes
Byrnes
Yes
Finch
Yes
Lalor
Yes
Otis
Yes
Santabarbara
Yes
Williams
Yes
Cahill
Yes
Fitzpatrick
Yes
Lavine
Yes
Palmesano
Yes
Sayegh
Yes
Woerner
Yes
Carroll
Yes
Friend
Yes
Lawrence
Yes
Palumbo
Yes
Schimminger
Yes
Wright
Yes
Colton
Yes
Frontus
Yes
Lentol
Yes
Paulin
Yes
Schmitt
Yes
Zebrowski
Yes
Cook
Yes
Galef
Yes
Lifton
Yes
Peoples-Stokes
Yes
Seawright
Yes
Mr. Speaker

‡ Indicates voting via videoconference
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A03918 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          3918
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 31, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced   by   M.  of  A.  McDONALD,  D'URSO,  BRAUNSTEIN,  WILLIAMS,
          SEAWRIGHT,  COOK,  CAHILL,  RIVERA,  ARROYO,  BLANKENBUSH,  RAIA,  RA,
          LAWRENCE,  MORINELLO,  GOTTFRIED,  BLAKE, FAHY, OTIS, HAWLEY -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A.   GALEF,  SIMON,  THIELE  --  read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
          to the dispensing of partially filled prescriptions
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 3333 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6. At the request of the prescriber or the patient, a prescription for
     4  a  schedule  II, schedule III or schedule IV controlled substance may be
     5  partially filled within thirty days from the date  of  issuance  of  the
     6  prescription.  The  remaining  quantity  of  the  prescription    may be
     7  dispensed separately within thirty days from the date of  issue  of  the
     8  prescription,  provided  that  the  controlled  substance  was  used  in
     9  conformity with directions for use and consistent with applicable feder-
    10  al regulations and regulations of the commissioner.
    11    § 2. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section  6816  of  the  education
    12  law,  as  amended by chapter 710 of the laws of 1988, is amended to read
    13  as follows:
    14    a. Any person, who, in putting up any drug, medicine, or food or prep-
    15  aration used in medical practice, or  making  up  any  prescription,  or
    16  filling  any  order  for  drugs, medicines, food or preparation puts any
    17  untrue label, stamp or other  designation  of  contents  upon  any  box,
    18  bottle or other package containing a drug, medicine, food or preparation
    19  used  in medical practice, or substitutes or dispenses a different arti-
    20  cle for or in lieu of any  article  prescribed,  ordered,  or  demanded,
    21  except  where required pursuant to section sixty-eight hundred sixteen-a
    22  of this article, or puts up a greater or lesser quantity of any ingredi-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07733-01-9

        A. 3918                             2
 
     1  ent specified in any  such  prescription,  order  or  demand  than  that
     2  prescribed, ordered or demanded, except where required pursuant to para-
     3  graph  (g)  of  subdivision two of section three hundred sixty-five-a of
     4  the  social  services  law  or  allowed pursuant to section thirty-three
     5  hundred thirty-three of the public health  law,  or  otherwise  deviates
     6  from  the terms of the prescription, order or demand by substituting one
     7  drug for another, except where required pursuant to section  sixty-eight
     8  hundred sixteen-a of this article, is guilty of a misdemeanor; provided,
     9  however,  that  except in the case of physicians' prescriptions, nothing
    10  herein contained shall be deemed or construed to prevent or impair or in
    11  any manner affect the right of an apothecary,  druggist,  pharmacist  or
    12  other  person  to  recommend  the purchase of an article other than that
    13  ordered, required or demanded, but of a similar nature, or to sell  such
    14  other  article  in  place  or in lieu of an article ordered, required or
    15  demanded, with the knowledge and consent of the purchaser. Upon a second
    16  conviction for  a  violation  of  this  section  the  offender  must  be
    17  sentenced  to  the  payment of a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars
    18  and may be sentenced to imprisonment for a term not to exceed one  year.
    19  The  third  conviction  of  a violation of any of the provisions of this
    20  section, in addition to rendering the offender  liable  to  the  penalty
    21  prescribed by law for a second conviction, shall forfeit any right which
    22  he  may  possess  under  the  law  of  this  state  at  the time of such
    23  conviction, to engage as proprietor, agent, employee  or  otherwise,  in
    24  the  business of an apothecary, pharmacist, or druggist, or to compound,
    25  prepare or dispense prescriptions or  orders  for  drugs,  medicines  or
    26  foods  or  preparations used in medical practice; and the offender shall
    27  be by reason of such conviction disqualified from engaging in  any  such
    28  business  as  proprietor,  agent,  employee or otherwise or compounding,
    29  preparing or dispensing medical prescriptions or orders for drugs, medi-
    30  cines, or foods or preparations used in medical practice.
    31    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    32  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
    33  ly  the  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal  of any rule or regulation
    34  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    35  authorized to be made on or before such date.
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