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Assembly Bill A5024

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to guidelines for onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers

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2023-A5024 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4103
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3309, Pub Health L

2023-A5024 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish guidelines for onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers; defines "community center".

2023-A5024 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5024
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 27, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  guidelines  for
   onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision  3  of  section  3309  of  the
 public  health  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read
 as follows:
   (VI) "COMMUNITY CENTER" MEANS A  FACILITY  OWNED  AND  OPERATED  BY  A
 GOVERNMENTAL  AGENCY  OR  A  NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION; PROVIDED,
 THAT THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF  THE  FACILITY  IS  FOR  RECREATION,  SOCIAL
 WELFARE, COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT OR PUBLIC ASSEMBLY.
   §  2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH GUIDELINES FOR ONSITE OPIOID OVER-
 DOSE RESPONSE CAPACITY IN COMMUNITY CENTERS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08503-01-3

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