Bill Text: NY A09882 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows paramedics to order certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to health [A09882 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09882-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9882

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. McDONALD, FAHY -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to allowing  paramed-
          ics  to order certain controlled substances for use by a person with a
          substance use disorder to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 2 of section 3351 of the public health law, as
     2  added by chapter 878 of the laws of 1972, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2. Controlled substances may be ordered  for  use  by  [an  addict]  a
     4  person  with a substance use disorder or habitual user by a practitioner
     5  and administered by a practitioner [or], registered nurse, or  paramedic
     6  to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15221-01-4