A 2665: Permits specialist assistants to prescribe controlled substances as a practitioner.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2665 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to permitting specialist assistants to prescribe controlled substances as a practi- tioner The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 2 3712 to read as follows: 3 § 3712. Prescriptions for controlled substances. A registered 4 specialist assistant, in good faith and acting within their lawful scope 5 of practice, and to the extent assigned by their supervising physician, 6 may prescribe controlled substances as a practitioner under article 7 thirty-three of this chapter, to patients under the care of such physi- 8 cian responsible for their supervision. The commissioner, in consulta- 9 tion with the commissioner of education, may promulgate such regulations 10 as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 13 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 14 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 15 completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05456-01-5