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Assembly Bill A770

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to patient counseling before issuing a prescription for a schedule II opioid

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2023-A770 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4870
Current Committee:
Assembly Higher Education
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3331, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7365
2017-2018: A8538, S5670
2019-2020: A741, S331
2021-2022: A2091, S1934
2025-2026: A1937, S5260

2023-A770 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to patient counseling before issuing a prescription for a schedule II opioid; requires practitioners to consult with the patient regarding the quantity of the opioid and the patient's option to fill the prescription in a lesser quantity, and to inform the patient of the risks associated with opiate addiction and document the reason for the prescription.

2023-A770 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    770
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 11, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to patient counseling
   before issuing a prescription for a schedule II opioid
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3331 of the public health law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
   2-A. PRIOR TO ISSUING A PRESCRIPTION FOR A SCHEDULE II OPIOID, A PRAC-
 TITIONER SHALL:
   (A)  CONSULT WITH THE PATIENT REGARDING THE QUANTITY OF THE OPIOID AND
 THE PATIENT'S OPTION TO FILL THE PRESCRIPTION IN A LESSER QUANTITY;
   (B) INFORM THE PATIENT OF THE RISKS ASSOCIATED WITH OPIATE  ADDICTION;
 AND
   (C)  DOCUMENT  THE REASON FOR THE OPIOID PRESCRIPTION IN THE PATIENT'S
 MEDICAL RECORD.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have  become  a  law.    Effective  immediately, the addition, amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of this act on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to  be  made  and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00919-01-3

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