Bill Text: NY A05086 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of dispensing an opioid prescription at no cost to the ultimate user of such prescribed opioid.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A05086 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05086-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5086--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      March 2, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public  health  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  a
          personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of
          dispensing an opioid prescription

          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  3309-c to read as follows:
     3    §  3309-c.  Opioid personal use pharmaceutical disposal systems. 1. No
     4  person in the state shall dispense an opioid prescription to  the  ulti-
     5  mate  user  of  such  prescribed  opioid unless such person additionally
     6  provides to such ultimate user a personal  use  pharmaceutical  disposal
     7  system at no cost to such ultimate user.
     8    2. As used in this section:
     9    (a)  "Personal  use  pharmaceutical  disposal system" means a portable
    10  product designed for personal use by the ultimate user for  the  purpose
    11  of  allowing  the ultimate user of a prescribed opioid to deactivate the
    12  prescribed opioid to a non-retrievable condition or state.
    13    (b) "Ultimate user" means a person who has lawfully obtained, and  who
    14  possesses,  a prescribed opioid for his or her own use or for the use of
    15  a member of his or her household.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06902-03-3