Bill > A08881

This bill amends the Education Law and the Public Health Law to authorize pharmacists to administer injections for contraceptive use. The key provisions include: 1. Allowing licensed physicians and certified nurse practitioners to prescribe and order non-patient specific orders to pharmacists for dispensing self-administered hormonal contraceptives or administering FDA-approved reversible progestin-only contraceptive injections. 2. Permitting licensed pharmacists to execute these non-patient specific orders, administer the contraceptive injections, and notify the patient's primary healthcare practitioner within 72 hours, unless the patient opts out of the notification. 3. Defining "United States Food and Drug Administration reversible progestin-only contraceptive injection" as a pharmacist-administered reversible progestin-only contraceptive injection approved by the FDA to prevent pregnancy. 4. Authorizing the Commissioner of Health to establish a non-patient specific order for pharmacists to dispense and administer the FDA-approved reversible progestin-only contraceptive injections. The bill aims to expand access to contraceptive options by allowing pharmacists to administer certain contraceptive injections, in addition to their existing ability to dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives.