STATE OF NEW YORK
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5592
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 10, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the dispensing of
drugs by pharmacists to veterinarians
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 6807 of the education law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. A pharmacist may dispense drugs, including veterinary-specific
4 compounded medications, to a veterinarian, and a veterinarian may
5 possess and keep in stock for administration and sale, such drugs pursu-
6 ant to a non-patient specific regimen prescribed or ordered by any prac-
7 titioner of veterinary medicine licensed pursuant to article one hundred
8 thirty-five of this title.
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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