STATE OF NEW YORK
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6380
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 7, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. THOMAS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting pharmacies
to employ unlicensed assistants
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 6807 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 881 of the laws of 1972 and such subdi-
3 vision as designated by chapter 18 of the laws of 1990, is amended to
4 read as follows:
5 a. Unlicensed assistants from being employed in licensed pharmacies
6 for purposes other than the practice of pharmacy. Notwithstanding any
7 other provision of law to the contrary, a licensed pharmacy shall be
8 permitted to employ up to four unlicensed assistants per pharmacist;
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
10 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
11 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
12 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
13 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13263-01-9
