Bill Text: NY S05662 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides that no antidepressant or anti-anxiety medication which has an increased risk of suicidal behavior in individuals shall be dispensed without consultation and other information to certain persons receiving outpatient services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO MENTAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES [S05662 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S05662-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5662--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 26, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. HAMILTON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Mental Health and Develop-
mental Disabilities -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the prescription
of antidepressant and anti-anxiety medications which have an increased
risk of suicidal behavior
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
2 7.47 to read as follows:
3 S 7.47 ANTIDEPRESSANT AND ANTI-ANXIETY MEDICATIONS; SUICIDE RISK.
4 (A) WHEN A PATIENT RECEIVES A PRESCRIPTION FOR AN ANTIDEPRESSANT OR
5 ANTI-ANXIETY MEDICATION IN AN OUTPATIENT SETTING, AND THE MEDICATION HAS
6 AN INCREASED RISK OF SUICIDALITY, THE OFFICE SHALL IDENTIFY SUCH MEDICA-
7 TIONS AND SHALL REQUIRE PHARMACISTS IN THE COURSE OF CONSULTATION, UPON
8 THE FIRST TIME DISPENSING OF THE MEDICATION TO THE PATIENT, TO PROVIDE
9 THE FOLLOWING:
10 (1) THE TOLL-FREE SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE TELEPHONE NUMBER ESTAB-
11 LISHED BY THE OFFICE;
12 (2) THE SUICIDE PREVENTION LIFELINE WEBSITE INTERNET ADDRESS ESTAB-
13 LISHED BY THE OFFICE; AND
14 (3) A PAMPHLET PUBLISHED BY THE OFFICE SETTING FORTH ALL RELEVANT
15 INFORMATION REGARDING THE INCREASED RISK OF SUICIDE AND SUICIDAL SIDE
16 EFFECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MEDICATION, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
17 INFORMATION SETTING FORTH THE WARNING SIGNS ASSOCIATED WITH SUCH
18 SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR AND ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE OFFICE DEEMS RELEVANT.
19 (B) ANY CONSULTATION REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION WITH
20 A PERSON UNDER SEVENTEEN YEARS OF AGE SHALL REQUIRE THAT A PARENT OR
21 LEGAL GUARDIAN OF SUCH PERSON BE IN ATTENDANCE DURING SUCH CONSULTATION.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (C) NO MEDICATION DESCRIBED IN SUBDIVISION (A) OF THIS SECTION SHALL
2 BE DISPENSED, DISPERSED OR OTHERWISE GIVEN TO A PERSON UNDER SEVENTEEN
3 YEARS OF AGE UNLESS A PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF SUCH PERSON IS IN
4 ATTENDANCE DURING THE CONSULTATION.
5 (D) THE OFFICE IS AUTHORIZED AND DIRECTED TO PROMULGATE ANY RULES AND
6 REGULATIONS AND PREPARE PAMPHLETS NECESSARY TO IMPLEMENT THE PROVISIONS
7 OF THIS SECTION.
8 S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
9 have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
10 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
11 for the implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
12 to be made and completed on or before such date.
