S 5625: Requires at least two licensed pharmacists to be on staff in a pharmacy during any period in which more than two hundred prescriptions are dispensed.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5625 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE February 26, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LIU -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring additional licensed pharmacists to be on staff during any period in which more than two hundred prescriptions are dispensed The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 6808 of the education law is 2 amended by adding two new paragraphs f-1 and f-2 to read as follows: 3 f-1. Pharmacy staffing. Every pharmacy, or pharmacy operated as a 4 department of a larger commercial establishment, which dispenses over 5 two hundred prescriptions in any fourteen hour period shall have at 6 least two licensed pharmacists on staff for the entire time period 7 during which such prescriptions are dispensed. 8 f-2. Daily logs. During compliance audits, a pharmacy must produce 9 daily prescription logs detailing the on-duty pharmacists' hourly fills 10 to an auditor. This log may be used as evidence that the pharmacy had 11 the required number of pharmacists on duty in compliance with paragraph 12 f-1 of this subdivision. 13 § 2. Section 6808 of the education law is amended by adding a new 14 subdivision 3 to read as follows: 15 3. A pharmacy shall not enforce policies that interfere with a 16 pharmacist's professional duties or judgements in matters of pharmacy 17 ethics or laws pertaining to the practice of pharmacy or the distrib- 18 ution of drugs or devices. 19 § 3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6808-c to 20 read as follows: 21 § 6808-c. Protection of pharmacists. A pharmacist may not be termi- 22 nated or dismissed from employment for a refusal or failure to meet 23 performance metrics or quotas relating to the number of prescriptions EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09352-01-5 
 S. 5625 2 1 dispensed where the pharmacist determines that such practices would 2 endanger patient safety or care. 3 § 4. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 4 have become a law.