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Assembly Bill A8570

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring forty-eight hour admittance at a hospital for persons treated for overdose of a controlled substance

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2015-A8570 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง2805-y, Pub Health L

2015-A8570 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring forty-eight hour admittance at a hospital for persons treated for overdose of a controlled substance.

2015-A8570 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8570

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            November 16, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. WOZNIAK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law,in relation  to  requiring  forty-
  eight  hour  admittance at a hospital for persons treated for overdose
  of a controlled substance

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
2805-y to read as follows:
  S 2805-Y. MANDATORY HOSPITAL ADMITTANCE PERIOD FOR OVERDOSE TREATMENT.
ANY PERSON TREATED IN A HOSPITAL,  AS  DEFINED  BY  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
SECTION  TWENTY-EIGHT  HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE, FOR HAVING OVERDOSED
ON A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, AS DEFINED BY  SUBDIVISION  FIVE  OF  SECTION
THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, SHALL BE REQUIRED TO BE ADMIT-
TED  TO  SUCH  FACILITY  FOR AT LEAST A FORTY-EIGHT HOUR PERIOD PRIOR TO
RELEASE. A HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER SHALL INFORM SUCH PERSON,  PRIOR  TO
THEIR  RELEASE,  OF THE RISKS OF OVERDOSE AND STRATEGIES TO AVOID FUTURE
INSTANCES OF OVERDOSE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13103-01-5

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