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Senate Bill S5672

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to the creation and disbursement of addiction treatment educational materials

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2017-S5672 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7643
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3309-b, Pub Health L

2017-S5672 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the creation and disbursement of addiction treatment educational materials; provides that every hospital and physician in the state shall distribute such materials to every patient being treated for a controlled substance overdose.

2017-S5672 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S5672 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5672
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 25, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ROBACH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the  creation  and
   disbursement of addiction treatment educational materials
 
   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
 3309-b to read as follows:
   §  3309-B.  ADDICTION  TREATMENT EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS. 1. THE COMMIS-
 SIONER  SHALL  CREATE  AND/OR  UTILIZE  EXISTING  EDUCATIONAL  MATERIALS
 REGARDING ADDICTION TREATMENT AND TREATMENT RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE
 THROUGH  THE  DEPARTMENT.  SUCH  EDUCATIONAL  MATERIALS MAY INCLUDE, BUT
 SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO, PAMPHLETS, LEAFLETS AND BROCHURES.
   2. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL MAKE SUCH EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS  AVAILABLE  TO
 ALL HOSPITALS AND PHYSICIANS WITHIN THE STATE.
   3.  EVERY HOSPITAL AND PHYSICIAN SHALL THEN DISTRIBUTE THE EDUCATIONAL
 MATERIALS TO ALL PATIENTS BEING TREATED FOR A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OVER-
 DOSE BY SUCH HOSPITAL OR PHYSICIAN.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11179-01-7

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