Bill Text: NY S07614 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to prehospital emergency medical services for individuals in substance use recovery; requires policies, procedures, and protocols to be developed to identify individuals in substance use recovery and to avoid treatment that could compromise such individuals' recovery.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07614 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S07614-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7614

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 26, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prehospital  emer-
          gency medical services for individuals in substance use recovery

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

     1    Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that emer-
     2  gency personnel are trained to look for intoxication, but not trained to
     3  ask a patient if they identify as a person in  substance  use  recovery.
     4  People  in  recovery work extremely hard to maintain recovery and should
     5  not be placed in a situation where their recovery  is  compromised.  The
     6  legislature  finds that emergency personnel need to be trained in how to
     7  communicate the risks of certain medications that could compromise their
     8  recovery and what possible alternatives are available.
     9    § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new  section  3000-f
    10  to read as follows:
    11    § 3000-f. Prehospital emergency medical services; substance use recov-
    12  ery.  1.  The  department,  the  state council, and the regional council
    13  shall include in their policies, procedures, and protocols for prehospi-
    14  tal emergency medical services and  transportation,  standards  for  the
    15  assessment  and  treatment  of  patients  who  identify  as  a person in
    16  substance use recovery. Such policies, procedures, and  protocols  shall
    17  include  point-of-entry  criteria and plans for the triage and transport
    18  of individuals who identify as a person in substance  use  recovery.  At
    19  minimum such policies, procedures, and protocols shall require emergency
    20  medical services and transportation providers to communicate to individ-
    21  uals  who  identify  as  a person in substance use recovery the risks of
    22  certain medications that could compromise such individuals' recovery  by
    23  offering alternate options for treatment and informing the hospital that
    24  such individual identifies as a person in substance use recovery.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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        S. 7614                             2

     1    2.  Beginning upon the effective date of this section, the department,
     2  the state council, and the regional council shall  annually  review  and
     3  update,  if  appropriate,  their policies, procedures, and protocols for
     4  prehospital emergency medical  services  and  transportation  to  ensure
     5  individuals  who  identify  as  a  person  in substance use recovery are
     6  receiving adequate information prior to treatment.
     7    § 3. Section 3053 of the public health law, as amended by chapter  445
     8  of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
     9    §  3053.  Reporting.  1. Advanced life support first response services
    10  and ambulance services registered or certified pursuant to article thir-
    11  ty of this chapter shall submit detailed individual call  reports  on  a
    12  form to be provided by the department, or may submit data electronically
    13  in  a  format  approved by the department.   The state emergency medical
    14  services council, with the approval of the commissioner, may adopt rules
    15  and regulations permitting or requiring ambulance services whose  volume
    16  exceeds  twenty thousand calls per year to submit call report data elec-
    17  tronically.  Such rules shall define the data elements to be  submitted,
    18  and  may  include  requirements  that assure availability of data to the
    19  regional emergency medical advisory committee.
    20    2. Such individual call report form, and such form's alternative elec-
    21  tronic format, shall include  whether  an  individual  identifies  as  a
    22  person  in  substance use recovery and, if known, such individual's type
    23  of addiction disease.
    24    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.