Assembly Actions -
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Jun 10, 2020 |
referred to health |
Assembly Bill A10619
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
FALL
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
Walter T. Mosley
Andrew Hevesi
Daniel O'Donnell
J. Gary Pretlow
2019-A10619 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A10619 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10619 I N A S S E M B L Y June 10, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Fall) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an opioid THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of section 3309 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 42 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: (i) A health care professional [may] SHALL prescribe [by] a patient- specific or non-patient-specific [prescription] OPIOID ANTAGONIST WHEN PRESCRIBING AN OPIOID, AND MAY ALSO, dispense or distribute, directly or indirectly, an opioid antagonist to an opioid antagonist recipient. SUCH HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONAL SHALL DISCUSS THE DANGERS OF OPIOID ADDICTION WITH SUCH PATIENT IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER. § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD16293-01-0
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