Bill Text: NY A00606 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 606 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Directs the department of health, in cooperation with various state offices and agencies to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the prescribing and treatment history of persons in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A00606 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00606-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                           606

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to direct the department of health, in cooperation  with  various
          state  offices  and  agencies to study, evaluate, and make recommenda-
          tions concerning the prescribing and treatment history of  persons  in
          this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses

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

     1    Section 1. Study of the prescribing and treatment history  of  persons
     2  in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses. 1. Defi-
     3  nitions. For the purposes of this section:
     4    a.  "Multiple  provider  episodes"  shall mean a single patient having
     5  access to opiate prescriptions from more than one provider.
     6    b. "Poly-substance access" shall mean a  patient  having  simultaneous
     7  prescriptions  for  an  opiate and a benzodiazepine or for an opiate and
     8  another drug which may enhance the effects or the risks of drug abuse or
     9  overdose.
    10    c. "Provider" shall include  any  individual  practicing  medicine  as
    11  defined in section 6521 of the education law.
    12    2. Study. The department of health, in cooperation with the department
    13  of  corrections  and  community  supervision,  the  office  of addiction
    14  services and supports, and the office of mental health, shall conduct  a
    15  study  of the prescribing and treatment history, including court-ordered
    16  treatment or treatment within the criminal justice system, of persons in
    17  this state who suffered fatal or nonfatal opiate overdoses beginning  in
    18  the calendar years 2011 to 2020 and yearly thereafter. Such study shall,
    19  with regard to such persons, conduct or provide for an examination of:
    20    a. instances of multiple provider episodes;
    21    b. instances of poly-substance access;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00365-01-1

        A. 606                              2

     1    c.  the  overall opiate prescription history of individuals, including
     2  whether such individuals had access to legal  prescriptions  for  opiate
     3  drugs at the time of their overdoses;
     4    d.  whether individuals had previously undergone voluntary or involun-
     5  tary treatment for substance addiction or behavioral health;
     6    e. whether individuals had attempted to enter but were  denied  access
     7  to treatment for substance addiction or behavioral health;
     8    f.  whether  individuals  had  received past treatment for a substance
     9  overdose; and
    10    g. whether any individuals had been previously detained or incarcerat-
    11  ed and, if so, whether such individuals had  received  treatment  during
    12  such detention or incarceration.
    13    3.  Report.  No  later  than one year after the effective date of this
    14  act, the department of health, in cooperation  with  the  department  of
    15  corrections  and community supervision, the office of addiction services
    16  and supports, and the office of mental health, shall deliver a report in
    17  an aggregate and de-identified form on  trends  discovered  through  the
    18  study  conducted  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of this section to the
    19  governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of  the
    20  assembly.  The reports for the calendar year 2020 shall be completed and
    21  delivered to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the
    22  speaker of the assembly by December 31, 2021. For future calendar years,
    23  the report shall be completed and delivered to such persons on or before
    24  December 31 of the following year.
    25    4.  Powers. All other departments or agencies of the state or subdivi-
    26  sions thereof, and local  governments  shall,  at  the  request  of  the
    27  commissioner  of  health,  the commissioner of corrections and community
    28  supervision, the commissioner of the office of  addiction  services  and
    29  supports,  or the commissioner of the office of mental health, or at the
    30  request of the designee of any  such  commissioner,  provide  expertise,
    31  assistance,  and/or  data that is relevant or material to the completion
    32  of the study directed to be completed by subdivision two of this section
    33  and the report directed to be completed by  subdivision  three  of  this
    34  section.
    35    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.