Requires prescriptions to be typewritten, electronically printed or handwritten in ink or indelible pencil in a legible manner; requires that handwritten prescriptions shall only be written in print letters; prohibits the use of script letters in handwritten prescriptions.

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A4948-2011 Actions

• Apr 20, 2011: enacting clause stricken
• Feb 9, 2011: referred to higher education

A4948-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                    4948

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              February 9, 2011
                                 ___________

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

  AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
    to requiring certain prescriptions to be typewritten

    THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section  1.    Subdivision  8 of section 6810 of the education law, as
  added by chapter 626 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:

    8. Every prescription (whether or  not  for  a  controlled  substance)
  written  in this state by a person authorized to issue such prescription
  and containing the prescriber's signature shall,  in  addition  to  such
  signature[,]: (A) be imprinted or stamped legibly and conspicuously with
  the  printed name of the prescriber who has signed the prescription. The
  imprinted or stamped name of the signing prescriber shall appear  in  an
  appropriate  location  on the prescription form and shall not be entered
  in or upon any space or line reserved for  the  prescriber's  signature.
  The imprinted or stamped name shall not be employed as a substitute for,
  or   fulfill   any   legal  requirement  otherwise  mandating  that  the
  prescription be signed by the prescriber; AND (B) SHALL BE  TYPEWRITTEN,
  ELECTRONICALLY  PRINTED   OR HANDWRITTEN IN INK OR INDELIBLE PENCIL IN A
  LEGIBLE MANNER. THIS PARAGRAPH SHALL NOT AFFECT MATTERS REQUIRED BY  LAW
  TO BE HANDWRITTEN BY THE PRESCRIBER.
    S  2.  The  opening  paragraph of subdivision 2 of section 3332 of the
  public health law, as amended by chapter 178 of the  laws  of  2010,  is
  amended to read as follows:

    Such  prescription  shall  be  prepared  on an official New York state
  prescription form, LEGIBLY written with ink, indelible pencil or,  apart
  from  the practitioner's signature, typewriter or electronic printer, or
  to the extent authorized  by  federal  requirements,  on  an  electronic
  prescription  AND,  WHERE  HANDWRITTEN,  SHALL  ONLY BE WRITTEN IN PRINT
  LETTERS. SUCH PRESCRIPTIONS SHALL NOT BE HANDWRITTEN IN SCRIPT  LETTERS.

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD06347-01-1

 A. 4948                             2

  The  original  official  New  York  state prescription or the electronic
  prescription must contain the following:

    S  3.  This  act  shall  take effect on the two hundred seventieth day
  after it shall have become a law.