Assembly Bill A7375B

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enacts the model overdose mapping and response act

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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2021-A7375 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5128
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3309-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4397, S5968

2021-A7375 - Summary

Enacts the model overdose mapping and response act.

2021-A7375 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7375
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT in relation to requiring the New York state department of  health
   to collect and report data concerning non-fatal overdoses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Non-fatal overdose data collection. (a) The  department  of
 health  shall  collect,  and make publicly available on the department's
 website, the data collected across all emergency room syndromic surveil-
 lance systems relating to non-fatal overdoses,  disaggregated  by  race,
 ethnicity,  sex, age, primary language, socioeconomic status, disability
 status, and county.  The department shall use  such  non-fatal  overdose
 data to extrapolate projected fatal overdose numbers.
   (b)  The  data made available under this section shall be updated on a
 monthly basis.
   (c) In publishing data under this section, the commissioner of  health
 shall  take  all  necessary  steps to protect the privacy of individuals
 whose information is included in such data, including, but  not  limited
 to:
   (1)  complying with privacy protections provided under the regulations
 promulgated under the federal Health Insurance Portability and  Account-
 ability Act of 1996; and
   (2)  protections from all inappropriate internal use by an entity that
 collects, stores, or receives data, including use of such data in deter-
 minations of eligibility or continued eligibility in health  plans,  and
 from inappropriate uses.
   §  2.  Non-fatal overdose data report. No later than 90 days after the
 effective date of this act, and every 180 days thereafter,  the  depart-
 ment  of health shall submit a written report of its findings and recom-
 mendations to the governor and the legislature and post such  report  on
 the  department of health's website. Such reports shall contain informa-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

2021-A7375A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5128
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3309-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4397, S5968

2021-A7375A - Summary

Enacts the model overdose mapping and response act.

2021-A7375A - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7375--A
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring the New
   York state department of health to collect and report data  concerning
   non-fatal overdoses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 3309 of the public  health
 law,  subdivision  5  as  amended  by chapter 66 of the laws of 2016 and
 subdivision 6 as amended by section 1 of part B of  chapter  70  of  the
 laws of 2016, are amended to read as follows:
   5.  The  commissioner shall publish findings on statewide opioid over-
 dose data that reviews overdose death rates  and  other  information  to
 ascertain  changes in the cause and rates of opioid overdoses, including
 fatal opioid overdoses. The report shall be submitted  [annually]  QUAR-
 TERLY, on or before October first, to the governor, the temporary presi-
 dent  of  the  senate, the speaker of the assembly and the chairs of the
 senate and assembly health committees, and shall be made public  on  the
 department's  internet  website. The report shall include, at a minimum,
 the following information on a county basis:
   (a) information  on  opioid  overdoses  and  opioid  overdose  deaths,
 including age, gender, ethnicity, and geographic location;
   (b)  data  on  emergency  room utilization for the treatment of opioid
 overdose;
   (c) data on utilization of pre-hospital services;
   (d) data on the dispensing and utilization of opioid antagonists; and
   (e) any other information necessary to ascertain the  success  of  the
 program,  areas  of  the  state which are experiencing particularly high
 rates of  overdoses,  ways  to  determine  if  services,  resources  and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09914-04-1
              

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2021-A7375B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5128
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3309-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4397, S5968

2021-A7375B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the model overdose mapping and response act.

2021-A7375B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7375--B
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 6, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. STECK, ASHBY, JENSEN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- reported and
   referred  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill
   amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to enacting the model
   overdose mapping and response act
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Short title. This act shall be known and may be  cited  as
 the "model overdose mapping and response act".
   §  2.  Legislative  findings  and  purpose. The legislature finds that
 substance use disorder and drug overdose is a major health problem  that
 affects    the lives of many people, multiple service systems, and leads
 to profound consequences including permanent injury or death. Accidental
 overdoses  caused  by  heroin,  fentanyl,  other  opiates,   stimulants,
 controlled  substance  analogs, novel psychoactive substances, and other
 legal or illegal drugs are a national security crisis  that  stress  and
 strain  the  financial,  public  health,  health care, and public safety
 resources in New York state.  This  impact  is  because  there  are  few
 central databases that can quickly help identify this problem and limit-
 ed funding for support to mitigate the crisis and risks statewide. There
 is  a  need for collaboration among local, regional, and state agencies,
 service systems, program offices within New York state, and other  part-
 ners  such  as  federal  agencies  to  establish  a comprehensive system
 addressing the problems associated with overdoses and to reduce duplica-
 tive requirements across local, county, state, public safety, and health
 care agencies.    Formalized  collaboration  allows  these  entities  to
 combine  their  numerous  resources and strengths, thus reducing insular
 decision-making.  Contemporaneous  data  collection  about,  and  public

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09914-06-2
              

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