Provides that no prescription for a controlled substance shall be on a prescription form which authorizes any other drug or controlled substance; provides that the total number of drugs, which may not exceed three, included on a single prescription form shall be indicated in a box on such form; defines controlled substance.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2286
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prescription forms
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 6810 of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 519 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. (a) No prescription for a drug written in this state by a person
5 authorized to issue such prescription shall be on a prescription form
6 which authorizes the dispensing or compounding of any other drug or
7 controlled substance. The total number of drugs, which may not exceed
8 three, included on a single form must be indicated in a box on each
9 form. No [drug] controlled substance shall be dispensed by a pharmacist
10 when such prescription form includes any other drug.
11 (b) [With respect to drugs other than controlled substances, the
12 provisions of this subdivision shall not apply to pharmacists employed
13 by or providing services under contract to general hospitals, nursing
14 homes, residential health care facilities as defined in section twenty-
15 eight hundred one of the public health law, hospitals as defined in
16 subdivision ten of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law, or develop-
17 mental centers or developmental disabilities services offices listed in
18 subdivision (b) of section 13.17 of the mental hygiene law, who dispense
19 drugs in the course of said employment or in the course of providing
20 such services under contract. With respect to such pharmacists, each
21 prescription shall be transcribed on a patient specific prescription
22 form.] For the purposes of this subdivision, "controlled substance"
23 means any substance listed in schedule I, II, III, IV or V of section
24 thirty-three hundred six of the public health law.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07141-01-1
