Bill Text: NY A10619 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires health care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an opioid and discuss the dangers of opioid addiction with such patient in a manner consistent with regulations promulgated by the commissioner of health.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-06-10 - referred to health [A10619 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10619-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10619

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 10, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON  RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fall) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  health
          care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an
          opioid

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (b)  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section  3309  of the public health law, as amended by chapter 42 of the
     3  laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i) A health care professional [may] shall prescribe [by]  a  patient-
     5  specific  or  non-patient-specific [prescription] opioid antagonist when
     6  prescribing an opioid, and may also, dispense or distribute, directly or
     7  indirectly, an opioid antagonist to an opioid antagonist recipient. Such
     8  health care professional shall discuss the dangers of  opioid  addiction
     9  with such patient in a manner consistent with regulations promulgated by
    10  the commissioner.
    11    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    13  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    14  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    15  on or before such effective date.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16293-01-0
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