Bill Text: NY A10294 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires persons providing substance abuse treatment or counseling to complete training in medication assisted treatment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-06-14 - substituted by s7301 [A10294 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A10294-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10294
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 20, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring certain
          persons providing substance abuse treatment on counseling to  complete
          training in medication assisted treatment
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  19.31 to read as follows:
     3  § 19.31 Medication assisted treatment training requirement.
     4    Every  person  who  is  a  credentialed alcoholism and substance abuse
     5  counselor pursuant to subdivision (d) of section 19.07 of  this  article
     6  or  a qualified health care professional who provides treatment or coun-
     7  seling services at a substance use disorder facility,  at  a  school  or
     8  pursuant  to  the  Drug  Addiction  Treatment Act of 2000, shall, within
     9  eighteen months of the effective date of this section or within one year
    10  of commencing the provision of any such treatment or counseling,  which-
    11  ever  shall  be  later,  successfully  complete  a course of instruction
    12  relating to medication assisted treatment approved by the office.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next  succeed-
    14  ing  the date on which it shall have become a law. Provided, that effec-
    15  tive immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any  rule  or
    16  regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective
    17  date  is  authorized  and directed to be made and completed on or before
    18  such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13640-02-6