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S04881 Summary:

BILL NOS04881A
 
SAME ASSAME AS A07324-A
 
SPONSORHOYLMAN
 
COSPNSRLAVALLE
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd SS6527, 6909 & 6802, Ed L
 
Authorizes a licensed pharmacist and certified nurse practitioner to administer meningococcal disease immunizing agents.
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S04881 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         4881--A
 
                               2013-2014 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     April 29, 2013
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  to  the  Committee  on  Higher  Education  --
          committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
          recommitted to said committee
 
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing a licensed

          pharmacist and certified nurse practitioner to administer  meningococ-
          cal disease immunizing agents
 
          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  6527  of  the  education  law  is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) A licensed physician may prescribe and order a non-patient specif-
     4  ic regimen to a licensed pharmacist, pursuant to regulations promulgated
     5  by  the  commissioner,  and  consistent  with the public health law, for
     6  administering immunizations to prevent meningococcal disease.
     7    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 6909 of the education law is amended  by
     8  adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:

     9    (c)  A  certified nurse practitioner may prescribe and order a non-pa-
    10  tient specific regimen to a licensed pharmacist, pursuant to regulations
    11  promulgated by the commissioner, and consistent with the  public  health
    12  law, for administering immunizations to prevent meningococcal disease.
    13    §  3.  Subdivision 22 of section 6802 of the education law, as amended
    14  by chapter 116 of the laws of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
    15    22. "Administer", for the purpose of section sixty-eight  hundred  one
    16  of  this article, means the direct application of an immunizing agent to
    17  adults, whether by injection, ingestion or any other means, pursuant  to
    18  a.  a  patient specific order or non-patient specific regimen prescribed
    19  or ordered by a physician or certified nurse  practitioner,  who  has  a

    20  practice  site  in the county in which the immunization is administered,
    21  for immunizations to prevent influenza or pneumococcal disease and medi-
    22  cations required for emergency treatment of anaphylaxis or b. a  patient
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10441-04-3

        S. 4881--A                          2
 
     1  specific  order  prescribed or ordered by a physician or certified nurse
     2  practitioner for immunizations to prevent acute herpes zoster or  menin-
     3  gococcal  disease or c. a patient specific order or non-patient specific
     4  regimen  prescribed or ordered by a physician or certified nurse practi-

     5  tioner for immunizations to prevent meningococcal disease.  If the coun-
     6  ty where the immunization is to be  administered  has  a  population  of
     7  seventy-five  thousand or less, then the licensed physician or certified
     8  nurse practitioner may be in an adjoining  county.  Such  administration
     9  shall be limited to immunizing agents to prevent influenza or pneumococ-
    10  cal  disease and medications required for emergency treatment of anaphy-
    11  laxis.
    12    § 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law; provided, that:
    14    (a)  the  amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6527 of the education
    15  law, made by section one of this act shall not affect the expiration and
    16  reversion of such subdivision, as provided in section 6 of  chapter  116
    17  of the laws of 2012, and shall be deemed to expire therewith; and

    18    (b)  the  amendments to subdivision 7 of section 6909 of the education
    19  law, made by section two of this act shall not affect the expiration and
    20  reversion of such subdivision, as provided in section 6 of  chapter  116
    21  of the laws of 2012, and shall be deemed to be expire therewith; and
    22    (c)  the amendments to subdivision 22 of section 6802 of the education
    23  law made by section three of this act shall not affect the expiration of
    24  such subdivision and shall be deemed to expire therewith.
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