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- Vetoed memo.218
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading cal.411
- Substituted for A9334
- Referred to health
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.285
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- Referred to health
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Relates to exceptions to requirements for electronic prescriptions
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Richard Gottfried
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation to exceptions to requirements for electronic prescriptions
Purpose or general idea of bill
To require the mandatory electronic prescribing system accommodate the nursing home medication administration system.
Summary of specific provisions
Amends Public Health Law § 281 and Education Law § 6810, to allow non-electronic prescriptions to be made through the long-established mechanism of oral prescriptions being submitted by nursing homes for their residents.
Justification
The law that requires all prescriptions for both non-controlled and controlled substances be electronically prescribed will go into effect on March 27, 2016. This bill will address an unintended consequence for nursing home care.
For decades, nurses, acting as the agent to the physician, have been authorized to take oral orders from the physician for medications through the nursing home medication administration system to deliver medications to residents safely and without delay. In this long-standing system, the physician then routinely signs the oral orders within 48 hours.
Physicians are not physically present in nursing homes 24 hours a day. Nurses serve a vital role ensuring proper medication administration in nursing homes. This bill is necessary to assure that physician's orders are timely filled to protect the health and well-being for each resident in a safe and secure method.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None to the state.
Effective date
Immediately
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