S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT in relation to requiring the commissioner of health to conduct a
study relating the correlation between pharmaceuticals and suicide
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. (a) The commissioner of health is hereby authorized and
directed to study the issues, implications, practices and correlations
between pharmaceuticals and suicide.
(b) Such study shall include, but not be limited to, the number of
suicide attempts pre-exposure and post-exposure to any drug, and any
other topic or issue required to conduct such study.
(c) The commissioner of health shall submit a report including recom-
mendations and findings based on this study to the governor, the tempo-
rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs
of the senate and assembly standing committees on health no later than
December 31, 2020.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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