S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
1997
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to department analy-
sis of the prescription monitoring program registry
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3343-a of the public health law,
as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 447 of the laws of 2012, is
amended to read as follows:
7. Department analysis of data. The department shall periodically
analyze data contained in the prescription monitoring program registry
to identify information that indicates that a violation of law or breach
of professional standards may have occurred, INCLUDING THE INAPPROPRIATE
PRESCRIBING OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES and, as warranted, provide any
relevant information to appropriate entities as permitted under section
thirty-three hundred seventy-one of this article. The department shall
keep a record of the information provided, including, but not limited
to, the specific information provided and the agency to which such
information was provided, including the name and title of the person to
whom such information was provided and an attestation from such person
that [he or she] SUCH PERSON has authority to receive such information.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05437-01-5
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