Bill Text: NY A10114 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires certain professions to receive education regarding prescribing opioids.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-15 - referred to higher education [A10114 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A10114-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 15, 2018
                                       ___________
        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;
    26    (b) A synthetic narcotic that  has  opiate-like  effects  but  is  not
    27  derived from opium; or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14928-01-8

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     1    (c)  A group of naturally occurring peptides that bind at or otherwise
     2  influence opiate receptors, including opioid agonist.
     3    § 6518. Opioid prescription education. 1. Curriculum. Beginning August
     4  first, two thousand nineteen, the licensing boards shall, by joint regu-
     5  lation, implement a safe prescription of a controlled substance contain-
     6  ing  an opioid curriculum. Such curriculum may be offered in colleges or
     7  by providers approved by such licensing boards and shall include all  of
     8  the following:
     9    (a) current, age-appropriate information relating to pain management;
    10    (b) multimodal treatments for chronic pain that minimizes the use of a
    11  controlled substance containing an opioid;
    12    (c)  instruction on safe methods of prescribing a controlled substance
    13  containing  an  opioid  that  follows  guideline-based  care  should   a
    14  controlled substance containing an opioid be indicated;
    15    (d)  identification  of  patients who have risk factors for developing
    16  problems with prescriptions of  a  controlled  substance  containing  an
    17  opioid;
    18    (e) training on managing substance use disorders as a chronic disease;
    19  and
    20    (f) alternatives to opioid pain medications.
    21    2.  Separation  from  standardized curriculum. Such education required
    22  under this subarticle shall not be considered to be  a  mandate  of  the
    23  curriculum  necessary  for  graduation. Nothing in this article shall be
    24  construed to prohibit a college from requiring  such  curriculum  to  be
    25  necessary to graduate after August first, two thousand nineteen.
    26    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    27  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    28  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    29  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    30  on or before such date.
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