Bill Text: NY S00379 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 379 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent abuse of prescription opioids.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S00379 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00379-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           379
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  distribution
          in  counties  with  the  most  prevalent  prescription opioid abuse of
          educational  materials  regarding  the  misuse  of  and  addiction  to
          prescription drugs
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision (j) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
     3    (4) Utilizing data that is available to the office, including, but not
     4  limited to, information obtained pursuant to subdivision four of section
     5  thirty-three  hundred  nine-a of the public health law, the commissioner
     6  shall identify the counties in New York state where prescription  opioid
     7  abuse  is  most prevalent. Pharmacists licensed by the state to dispense
     8  prescription drugs may be notified at the discretion of the commissioner
     9  in collaboration with the department of health, about the prevalence  of
    10  opioid  abuse  in  the  county in which such pharmacists are located and
    11  encourage the facilities  where  prescription  drugs  are  dispensed  to
    12  distribute materials created or utilized pursuant to this subdivision.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03537-01-9