STATE OF NEW YORK
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4749
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 18, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. DeFRANCISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to the collection
of prescription drug co-payments
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of
2 section 367-a of the social services law, as amended by section 47 of
3 part C of chapter 58 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
4 (iii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this paragraph, co-
5 payments charged for each generic prescription drug dispensed shall be
6 one dollar and for each brand name prescription drug dispensed shall be
7 three dollars; provided, however, that the co-payments charged for each
8 brand name prescription drug on the preferred drug list established
9 pursuant to section two hundred seventy-two of the public health law and
10 the co-payments charged for each brand name prescription drug reimbursed
11 pursuant to subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a-1) of subdivision four of
12 section three hundred sixty-five-a of this title shall be one dollar.
13 The payment of such co-payments shall be mandatory at the point of sale
14 in pharmacies.
15 § 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 2-a of section 369-ee of the social
16 service law, as amended by section 26 of part E of chapter 63 of the
17 laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
18 (i) co-payments charged for each generic prescription drug dispensed
19 shall be three dollars and for each brand name prescription drug
20 dispensed shall be six dollars and the payment of such co-payments shall
21 be mandatory at the point of sale in pharmacies;
22 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
23 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that the amendments to
24 subparagraph (iii) of paragraph (c) of subdivision 6 of section 367-a of
25 the social services law made by section one of this act shall not affect
26 the repeal of such paragraph and shall be deemed to repeal therewith.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10938-01-1
