New York A 358: Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis

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A00358 Summary:

BILL NOA00358 

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SAME ASSAME AS S10467

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SPONSORBarrett

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§6527, 6909 & 6801, Ed L

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Authorizes pharmacists to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis.

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BILL NOA00358 

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01/08/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 358

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BARRETT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing pharma-
 cists to dispense HIV pre-exposure and post-exposure prophylaxis

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7-a of section 6527 of the education law, as
 2 added by chapter 502 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
 3 7-a. A licensed physician may prescribe and order a patient specific
 4 order or non-patient specific order to a licensed pharmacist, pursuant
 5 to regulations promulgated by the commissioner in consultation with the
 6 commissioner of health, and consistent with the public health law, for
 7 dispensing up to a seven day starter pack of HIV post-exposure prophy-
 8 laxis for the purpose of preventing human immunodeficiency virus
 9 infection following a potential human immunodeficiency virus exposure. A
 10 licensed physician may also prescribe and order a patient specific or
 11 non-patient specific order to a licensed pharmacist, pursuant to regu-
 12 lations promulgated by the commissioner in consultation with the commis-
 13 sioner of health, and consistent with the public health law and section
 14 sixty-eight hundred one of this title, for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis,
 15 provided, however, that the regulations promulgated pursuant to this
 16 subdivision shall require that the HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis author-
 17 ized to be dispensed by a licensed pharmacist shall provide for at least
 18 a thirty-day, but no more than a sixty-day, supply of such prophylaxis.
 19 § 2. Subdivision 8 of section 6909 of the education law, as added by
 20 chapter 502 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
 21 [8.] 12. A certified nurse practitioner may prescribe and order a
 22 patient specific order or non-patient specific order to a licensed phar-
 23 macist, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner in
 24 consultation with the commissioner of health, and consistent with the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00284-01-5

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 1 public health law, for dispensing up to a seven day starter pack of HIV
 2 post-exposure prophylaxis for the purpose of preventing human immunode-
 3 ficiency virus infection following a potential human immunodeficiency
 4 virus exposure. A certified nurse practitioner may also prescribe and
 5 order a patient specific or non-patient specific order to a licensed
 6 pharmacist, pursuant to regulations promulgated by the commissioner in
 7 consultation with the commissioner of health, and consistent with the
 8 public health law and section sixty-eight hundred one of this title, for
 9 HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, provided, however, that the regulations
 10 promulgated pursuant to this subdivision shall require that the HIV
 11 pre-exposure prophylaxis authorized to be dispensed by a licensed phar-
 12 macist shall provide for at least a thirty-day, but no more than a
 13 sixty-day, supply of such prophylaxis.
 14 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 6801 of the education law, as added by
 15 chapter 502 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivision 10 is
 16 added to read as follows:
 17 5. A licensed pharmacist may execute a non-patient specific order, for
 18 dispensing up to a seven day starter pack of HIV post-exposure prophy-
 19 laxis medications for the purpose of preventing human immunodeficiency
 20 virus infection, by a physician