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- Recommit, enacting clause stricken
- Referred to insurance
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to insurance
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Relates to pharmaceuticals with an aesthetic or cosmetic use or purpose
In Assembly Committee · Insurance · Sponsor Crystal Peoples-Stokes
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BILL NUMBER:S5511
Title of bill
An act to amend the insurance law and the education law, in relation to pharmaceuticals with an aesthetic or cosmetic use or purpose
Purpose
To give to consumers of aesthetic pharmaceuticals the option of having a particular prescription dispensed from a pharmacy or the office of the prescribing physician, and to monitor the effect of the sale of unregulated non-pharmaceutical cosmetic formulas on liability insurance rates.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends the insurance law in relation to reviewing the effect on liability insurance rates caused by the sale of certain non regulated cosmetic products that replicate the effects of cosmetic pharmaceuticals.
Section two amends section 6802 of the education law to provide a definition of an aesthetic pharmaceutical for purposes of the act.
Section three amends subdivision 2 of section 6807 of the education law to allow physicians to dispense a certain aesthetic pharmaceutical in excess of the seventy-two hour supply limit generally imposed on by subdivision 2 of Section 6807. Section four establishes the effective date.
Existing law
Currently, physicians are limited to dispensing a 72 hour supply of prescription drugs unless they meet one of the exemptions provided in section 6807(2) of the education law.
Justification
This bill would expand the options to consumers in the purchase of a certain identified aesthetic pharmaceutical that is dispensed only to improve or change physical appearance and not for purposes of treating a medical condition. It will also help ensure that consumers of these aesthetic pharmaceuticals receive only fully efficacious drugs and avoid the Purchase of copies or "knock offs" that do not provide the full benefit of the prescribed aesthetic pharmaceutical. The bill also provides express statutory authorization relating to the review of the impact that the sale of such "knock-off" products have on liability insurance rates.
Fiscal implications
None to state.
Legislative history
S7193 of 2012
Effective date
Immediately.
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