What's happening
This bill requires pharmacies to make reasonable attempts to notify patients within three days if a prescription drug they dispensed is subject to a class I recall.
Why it matters
Addresses urgent health risks. By focusing on "class I recalls," the bill targets the most dangerous drug recalls—those where there’s a reasonable probability that using the drug could lead to serious health consequences or death—potentially preventing severe harm to patients.
Strengthens patient safety and trust. Requiring pharmacies to proactively notify patients they’ve dispensed recalled drugs to, rather than leaving patients to find out indirectly, builds public trust and helps ensure that individuals aren’t unknowingly exposed to dangerous medications.
Sets a clear, enforceable timeframe. Mandating notification within three days of the pharmacy’s receipt of recall information ensures that action is prompt, reducing the window in which patients might continue taking a hazardous drug.
Includes flexibility for pharmacy chains. Allowing either individual pharmacies or central offices of chains to provide notification accommodates different business models, making compliance more practical for larger entities while ensuring all patients are reached efficiently.
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Pharmacies Must Alert on Recalls
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History
- Signed chap.379
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to assembly
- Passed senateVote 61–0
- 3rd reading cal.1252
- Substituted for S5091B
- Referred to higher education
- Delivered to senate
- Passed assembly
- Advanced to third reading cal.413
- Reported
- Print number 4781b
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- Amend and recommit to higher education
- Print number 4781a
- Amend (t) and recommit to higher education
- Referred to higher education
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Notify Patients of Drug Recalls
Senate Floor Calendar · Sponsor Leroy Comrie
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4781--B
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. D. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring pharmacies to make reasonable attempts to notify patients of certain drug recalls
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6811-c to read as follows:
§ 6811-c. Patient notification of recalled drugs. 1. For purposes of this section the term "class I recall" shall mean a situation in which the United States food and drug administration deems there is reasonable probability that the use of or exposure to a violative product will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.
2. Where there has been a class I recall of a prescription drug, pharmacies shall make a reasonable attempt to notify all patients that have been prescribed and who are currently taking such recalled drug dispensed from such pharmacy by phone or by mail within three days of the pharmacy being notified by the United States food and drug administration, a manufacturer, a wholesaler or by other notice of such recall.
3. The notification required by this section may be provided by an individual pharmacy or by a central office in the case of a pharmacy that is part of a chain.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06542-06-9
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