Assembly Bill A1249

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to prehospital emergency medical services for individuals in substance use recovery

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A1249 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7614
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3000-f, amd §3053, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A9383

2023-A1249 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2023-A1249 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   1249
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 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:

   Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that emer-
 gency personnel are trained to look for intoxication, but not trained to
 ask  a  patient  if they identify as a person in substance use recovery.
 People in recovery work extremely hard to maintain recovery  and  should
 not  be  placed  in a situation where their recovery is compromised. The
 legislature finds that emergency personnel need to be trained in how  to
 communicate the risks of certain medications that could compromise their
 recovery and what possible alternatives are available.
   §  2.  The public health law is amended by adding a new section 3000-f
 to read as follows:
   § 3000-F. PREHOSPITAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; SUBSTANCE USE RECOV-
 ERY. 1. THE DEPARTMENT, THE STATE  COUNCIL,  AND  THE  REGIONAL  COUNCIL
 SHALL INCLUDE IN THEIR POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND PROTOCOLS FOR PREHOSPI-
 TAL  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  AND TRANSPORTATION, STANDARDS FOR THE
 ASSESSMENT AND TREATMENT  OF  PATIENTS  WHO  IDENTIFY  AS  A  PERSON  IN
 SUBSTANCE  USE  RECOVERY. SUCH POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND PROTOCOLS SHALL
 INCLUDE POINT-OF-ENTRY CRITERIA AND PLANS FOR THE TRIAGE  AND  TRANSPORT
 OF  INDIVIDUALS  WHO  IDENTIFY AS A PERSON IN SUBSTANCE USE RECOVERY. AT
 MINIMUM SUCH POLICIES, PROCEDURES, AND PROTOCOLS SHALL REQUIRE EMERGENCY
 MEDICAL SERVICES AND TRANSPORTATION PROVIDERS TO COMMUNICATE TO INDIVID-
 UALS WHO IDENTIFY AS A PERSON IN SUBSTANCE USE  RECOVERY  THE  RISKS  OF
 CERTAIN  MEDICATIONS THAT COULD COMPROMISE SUCH INDIVIDUALS' RECOVERY BY
 OFFERING ALTERNATE OPTIONS FOR TREATMENT AND INFORMING THE HOSPITAL THAT
 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.
                                                            LBD02504-01-3
 A. 1249                             2
              

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