New York A 2665: Permits specialist assistants to prescribe controlled substances as a practitioner

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A02665 Summary:

BILL NOA02665 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSayegh

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Add §3712, Pub Health L

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Permits specialist assistants to prescribe controlled substances as a practitioner.

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BILL NOA02665 

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01/21/2025referred to higher education

01/07/2026referred to higher education

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 2665

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to permitting
 specialist assistants to prescribe controlled substances as a practi-
 tioner

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

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 3712 to read as follows:
 3 § 3712. Prescriptions for controlled substances. A registered
 4 specialist assistant, in good faith and acting within their lawful scope
 5 of practice, and to the extent assigned by their supervising physician,
 6 may prescribe controlled substances as a practitioner under article
 7 thirty-three of this chapter, to patients under the care of such physi-
 8 cian responsible for their supervision. The commissioner, in consulta-
 9 tion with the commissioner of education, may promulgate such regulations
 10 as are necessary to carry out the purposes of this section.
 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 12 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
 13 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
 14 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
 15 completed on or before such effective date.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD05456-01-5

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