Assembly Bill A9574

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to including pain management medications on a death certificate where a death is caused by an opioid overdose

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A9574 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §4141, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3030
2023-2024: A1049

2019-A9574 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes pain management medications that the decedent was prescribed, such as gabapentin, on a death certificate where a death is caused by an opioid overdose.

2019-A9574 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9574
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 24, 2020
                                ___________
 
 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 including pain
   management medications on a death certificate where a death is  caused
   by an opioid overdose
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision  4  of  section  4141  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 443 of the laws of 2019, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (d) Where a death is caused by an opioid  overdose,  such  information
 shall be indicated on the certificate, including, if known to the person
 completing  the  death  certificate, the specific opioid that caused the
 death of the decedent AND ANY OTHER PAIN MANAGEMENT MEDICATIONS, INCLUD-
 ING BUT NOT LIMITED TO GABAPENTIN, THAT  THE  DECEDENT  WAS  PRESCRIBED,
 along  with  any  other  related  information  as  the  commissioner may
 require.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14287-01-9

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