S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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10656
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 10, 2016
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McDonald) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to directing the
department of health to include information regarding the adminis-
tration of overdose reversal agents on the prescription monitoring
program registry
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 3343-a of the public health law is
renumbered subdivision 10 and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as
follows:
9. (A) NO LATER THAN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, THE DEPART-
MENT SHALL INCLUDE ON THE PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAM REGISTRY
INFORMATION FOR EACH PERSON TO WHOM NALOXONE OR ANOTHER OVERDOSE
REVERSAL AGENT HAS BEEN DISPENSED TO ASSIST PHYSICIANS AND OTHER PRES-
CRIBERS IDENTIFY PATIENTS WHO HAVE OVERDOSED ON AN OPIOID OR ON HEROIN.
(B) ANY PERSON, INCLUDING A FIRST RESPONDER OR MEDICAL PRACTITIONER,
WHO ADMINISTERS NALOXONE OR ANOTHER OVERDOSE REVERSAL AGENT TO A PATIENT
IN THE CASE OF A SUSPECTED OR CONFIRMED OVERDOSE SHALL REPORT THE ADMIN-
ISTRATION OF THE AGENT TO THE PRESCRIPTION MONITORING PROGRAM REGISTRY
WITHIN SEVENTY-TWO HOURS OF ADMINISTRATION. SUCH REPORT SHALL CONTAIN
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IF AVAILABLE: (I) THE NAME OF THE PATIENT;
(II) THE ADDRESS OF THE PATIENT; (III) THE DATE OF BIRTH OF THE PATIENT;
(IV) THE TIME AND PLACE OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AGENT; AND (V) THE
IDENTITY OF THE PERSON WHO ADMINISTERED THE NALOXONE TO THE PATIENT.
(C) ANY REPORT MADE PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE
CONSIDERED TO BE MADE BY THE REPORTER IN THE COURSE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES
AND SHALL BE DIRECTLY RELATED TO PATIENT CARE.
S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15575-01-6
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