Bill Text: NY S06085 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that if a person is treated at a hospital and such hospital conducts a urine drug screening to assist in diagnosing the person's condition, the hospital shall include testing for fentanyl in such urine drug screening; defines urine drug screening.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06085 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06085-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6085

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 28, 2023
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 requiring hospi-
          tals to include testing for fentanyl in urine drug screenings

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

     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2831 to read as follows:
     3    § 2831. Urine drug screening. 1. If a person is treated at a  hospital
     4  and  such hospital conducts a urine drug screening to assist in diagnos-
     5  ing such person's condition, the  hospital  shall  include  testing  for
     6  fentanyl in such urine drug screening.
     7    2.  For  the  purposes of this section, "urine drug screening" means a
     8  chemical analysis intended to  test  individuals  for  the  presence  of
     9  multiple drugs, including cocaine, opioids, and phencyclidine.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10493-01-3