Bill Text: NY S05150 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that with the first opioid prescription of each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of hospice, the prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present: a history of substance abuse disorder; high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in over 50 morphine milligram equivalents per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to ways and means [S05150 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05150-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5150--B

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 11, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  HARCKHAM,  CARLUCCI,  SALAZAR  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health  --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as
          amended and recommitted to said  committee  --  committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said
          committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  prescribing  an
          opioid  antagonist  with  a  patient's  first opioid 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 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. With the first prescription to a particular patient of an opioid of
     4  each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or  nursing
     5  home  under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under arti-
     6  cle thirty-one of the mental hygiene law,  or  when  a  practitioner  is
     7  prescribing  a  controlled  substance  to  a  patient  under the care of
     8  hospice as defined by section four thousand two  of  this  chapter,  the
     9  prescriber  shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the follow-
    10  ing risk factors are present: (a) a history of substance  use  disorder;
    11  (b)  high  dose  or  cumulative  prescriptions that result in over fifty
    12  morphine milligram equivalents per day; (c) concurrent  use  of  opioids
    13  and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    18  completed  by  the  commissioner  of  health on or before such effective
    19  date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01771-12-9