A 4803: Allows pharmacies to store medication in automated dispensing machines if a contractual agreement is in place with a nursing home or healthcare facility at such facility for the residents.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4803 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 6, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to permitting pharmacies to store prescribed medications in automated dispensing machines The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6802 of the education law, as 2 amended by chapter 538 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. "Pharmacy" means (a) any place in which drugs, prescriptions or 5 poisons are possessed for the purpose of compounding, preserving, 6 dispensing or retailing, or in which drugs, prescriptions or poisons are 7 compounded, preserved, dispensed or retailed, or in which such drugs, 8 prescriptions or poisons are by advertising or otherwise offered for 9 sale at retail[.]; and (b) a pharmacy registered by the department, and 10 based upon a contractual arrangement with a nursing home or residential 11 health care facility as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of 12 the public health law, may store prescribed medications at such facility 13 in an automated dispensing machine and dispense such medications for the 14 sole use of the facility's residents. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08257-01-5