Bill Text: NY S02053 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2053 (Prior Session Legislation)

NY State Legislature page for S02053

Bill Title: Limits the initial prescription of a controlled substance for the alleviation of acute pain to a seven-day supply for users twenty years of age or older and to a three-day supply for users nineteen years of age or younger.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - PRINT NUMBER 2053A [S02053 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02053-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         2053--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens. RIVERA, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health --  recom-
          mitted  to  the  Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
          sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health law, in relation to limiting the
          initial prescription of a controlled substance for the alleviation  of
          acute  pain  to  a  seven-day  supply for users twenty years of age or
          older and to a three-day supply for users nineteen  years  of  age  or
          younger

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision  5  of  section  3331  of  the
     2  public  health law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 71 of the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of  this  subdivi-
     5  sion,  a practitioner, within the scope of his or her professional opin-
     6  ion or discretion, may not prescribe more than a seven-day supply of any
     7  schedule II, III, or IV opioid to an ultimate user who is  twenty  years
     8  of  age  or  older,  or more than a three-day supply of any schedule II,
     9  III, or IV opioid to an ultimate user who is nineteen years  of  age  or
    10  younger  upon  the  initial  consultation  or treatment of such user for
    11  acute pain. Upon any subsequent consultations for  the  same  pain,  the
    12  practitioner  may issue, in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subdi-
    13  vision, any appropriate renewal, refill, or  new  prescription  for  the
    14  opioid or any other drug.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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