Bill Text: NY S05653 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Requires the department of health analysis of data in the prescription monitoring program registry.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to health [S05653 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S05653-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         5653--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 10, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. METZGER -- 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

        AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to department analy-
          sis of the prescription monitoring program registry

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 7 of section 3343-a of the public health law,
     2  as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 447 of the laws of  2012,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    7.  Department  analysis  of data.   The department shall periodically
     5  analyze data contained in the prescription monitoring  program  registry
     6  to identify information that indicates that a violation of law or breach
     7  of professional standards may have occurred, including the inappropriate
     8  prescribing  of  controlled  substances  and,  as warranted, provide any
     9  relevant information to appropriate entities as permitted under  section
    10  thirty-three  hundred  seventy-one of this article. The department shall
    11  keep a record of the information provided, including,  but  not  limited
    12  to,  the  specific  information  provided  and  the agency to which such
    13  information was provided, including the name and title of the person  to
    14  whom  such  information was provided and an attestation from such person
    15  that he or she has authority to receive such information.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11627-02-9
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