Bill Text: NY A06397 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain professions to receive education regarding prescribing opioids.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A06397 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06397-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6397 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 7, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain professions to receive education regarding prescribing opioids The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new article 130-A 2 to read as follows: 3 ARTICLE 130-A 4 MEDICAL PROFESSION EDUCATIONAL REQUIREMENTS 5 SUBARTICLE 1. OPIOID PRESCRIPTION EDUCATION 6 Section 6517. Definitions. 7 6518. Opioid prescription education. 8 § 6517. Definitions. For the purposes of this article: 9 1. "College" shall mean: 10 (a) a medical college; 11 (b) a medical training facility, including a school of nursing and a 12 school of optometry; 13 (c) a dental school; or 14 (d) an osteopathic medical college or osteopathic medical training 15 facility. 16 2. "Controlled substance" shall be defined as in subdivision five of 17 section 220.00 of the penal law. 18 3. "Licensing boards" shall refer to: 19 (a) the state board of dentistry; 20 (b) the state board of medicine; 21 (c) the state board of nursing; 22 (d) the state board of optometry; and 23 (e) the state board of podiatry. 24 4. "Opioid" shall mean any of the following: 25 (a) A preparation or derivative of opium; EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10027-01-9A. 6397 2 1 (b) A synthetic narcotic that has opiate-like effects but is not 2 derived from opium; or 3 (c) A group of naturally occurring peptides that bind at or otherwise 4 influence opiate receptors, including opioid agonist. 5 § 6518. Opioid prescription education. 1. Curriculum. Beginning August 6 first, two thousand twenty, the licensing boards shall, by joint regu- 7 lation, implement a safe prescription of a controlled substance contain- 8 ing an opioid curriculum. Such curriculum may be offered in colleges or 9 by providers approved by such licensing boards and shall include all of 10 the following: 11 (a) current, age-appropriate information relating to pain management; 12 (b) multimodal treatments for chronic pain that minimizes the use of a 13 controlled substance containing an opioid; 14 (c) instruction on safe methods of prescribing a controlled substance 15 containing an opioid that follows guideline-based care should a 16 controlled substance containing an opioid be indicated; 17 (d) identification of patients who have risk factors for developing 18 problems with prescriptions of a controlled substance containing an 19 opioid; 20 (e) training on managing substance use disorders as a chronic disease; 21 and 22 (f) alternatives to opioid pain medications. 23 2. Separation from standardized curriculum. Such education required 24 under this subarticle shall not be considered to be a mandate of the 25 curriculum necessary for graduation. Nothing in this article shall be 26 construed to prohibit a college from requiring such curriculum to be 27 necessary to graduate after August first, two thousand twenty. 28 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 29 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 30 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 31 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 32 on or before such date.