Bill Text: NY S04095 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4095 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Provides that every initial opioid analgesic prescription per year, which is equal to or greater than fifty morphine milligram equivalents, shall be accompanied with a prescription for an opioid antagonist.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04095 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S04095-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4095
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 28, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  prescribing  an
          opioid antagonist with a patient's first opioid analgesic prescription
          in a given year
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3302 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  two new subdivisions 44 and 45 to read as follows:
     3    44. "Opioid analgesics" means the medicines buprenophine, butorphanol,
     4  codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, levorphanol, meperidine, methadone,
     5  morphine,  nalbuphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone, pentazocine, propoxyphene
     6  as well as their brand names, isomers and combinations.
     7    45. "Opioid antagonist" means an FDA-approved drug that, when adminis-
     8  tered, negates or neutralizes in whole or in  part  the  pharmacological
     9  effects  of  an  opioid in the body. The opioid antagonist is limited to
    10  naloxone or other  medications  approved  by  the  department  for  this
    11  purpose.
    12    §  2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
    13  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    14    7. Every initial opioid analgesic  prescription  per  year,  which  is
    15  equal  to or greater than fifty morphine milligram equivalents, shall be
    16  accompanied with a prescription for an opioid antagonist.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    19  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    20  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    21  by the commissioner of health on or before such effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01771-01-9