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- Print number 8101b
- Amend (t) and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
- Print number 8101a
- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
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Requires pharmacies to post notice of the professional misconduct complaint process
In Assembly Committee · Higher Education · Sponsor Jeffrey D. Klein
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BILL NUMBER:A8101B
Title of bill
An act to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation to providing public notice of the education department professional misconduct complaint process relating to pharmacies
Purpose or general idea of bill
Relates to promoting the office of professions complaint process.
Summary of specific provisions
Amends the Education Law §6826(4) to require pharmacies to include on the drug retail price list a notice about the education department's authority to accept and investigate complaints about alleged professional misconduct. Pharmacies in hospi- tals, nursing homes or extended care facilities limited to in-patient care are exempt from this requirement. Section 2 amends the Public health law §276-a to add the notification provisions provided in Section 1 of this bill to the Department of Health's internet web-site for prescription drug retail price lists.
Justification
Recent studies have estimated that 2-3 million errors occur each year at retail pharmacies around the U.S., including approxi- mately 210,000 in New York State. The vast majority of errors arc never reported to state licensing authorities because pharmacies are not required to report their errors and consumers are not aware of the need to report such mistakes to anyone other than the pharmacy. Errors such as receiving the wrong drug or the wrong dosage of the correct drug can cause life-threatening side effects and unintended drug interactions. If even 1 in 1000 of prescription errors results in a life or health- threatening condition, a rate supported by multiple studies, then up to 200 New York lives can be saved each year by helping the NYS Office of the Professions better monitor the practice of pharmacy in our State. Furnishing complaint information at the pharmacy will enlist the public in efforts to make pharmacies safer by enabling them to report those pharmacies that are failing in their obligation to competently dispense prescription medications.
Prior legislative history
2008 - S.8779 - Referred to Rules
Fiscal implications
None
Effective date
This act shall take effect 60 days after it shall have become a law. submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Section 1(e)
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