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Senate Bill S8820

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Includes opioid use as a condition permitting the use of medical marihuana

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2017-S8820 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3360, Pub Health L

2017-S8820 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes opioid use as a condition permitting the use of medical marihuana.

2017-S8820 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8820 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8820
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 22, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- 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 conditions permit-
   ting the use of medical marihuana
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 7 of
 section 3360 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 403 of  the
 laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   (i)  having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten-
 ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
 or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic  lateral  sclerosis,
 Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of
 the  spinal  cord  with objective neurological indication of intractable
 spasticity,  epilepsy,   inflammatory   bowel   disease,   neuropathies,
 Huntington's  disease,  post-traumatic  stress disorder, AS A SUBSTITUTE
 FOR OPIOIDS FOR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TO  LAST  LESS  THAN  THREE  MONTHS,
 PROVIDED  THAT  THE MEDICAL RECORD MUST CONTAIN A WRITTEN TREATMENT PLAN
 THAT FOLLOWS GENERALLY ACCEPTED NATIONAL  PROFESSIONAL  OR  GOVERNMENTAL
 GUIDELINES,  EXCEPT  THAT THE FOLLOWING OF SUCH A WRITTEN TREATMENT PLAN
 SHALL NOT APPLY IN THE CASE OF PATIENTS WHO ARE BEING TREATED FOR CANCER
 THAT IS NOT IN REMISSION, WHO ARE IN HOSPICE OR OTHER END-OF-LIFE  CARE,
 OR  WHOSE PAIN IS BEING TREATED AS PART OF PALLIATIVE CARE PRACTICES, or
 as added by the commissioner; and
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
 ments  to  title  5-A  of  article  33  of the public health law made by
 section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of  such  title  and
 shall be deemed repealed therewith.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15956-01-8

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