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Assembly Bill A2253A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder

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2025-A2253 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3351, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9584
2021-2022: A3462
2023-2024: A942

2025-A2253 - Summary

Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder during certain emergency medical treatment, or to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.

2025-A2253 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2253
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Health
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing and
   establishing a training program for paramedics for the  administration
   of buprenorphine
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10.  THE  COMMISSIONER SHALL DEVELOP A TRAINING PROGRAM AND ASSOCIATED
 TRAINING MATERIALS FOR PARAMEDICS PROVIDING EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES
 ON  PROTOCOLS  FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF BUPRENORPHINE UPON THE ADMINIS-
 TRATION OF NALOXONE. PARAMEDICS SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO  CARRY  BUPRENOR-
 PHINE  FOR  ADMINISTRATION  PURSUANT  TO  SUCH  PROTOCOLS  IN CASES OF A
 SUSPECTED OVERDOSE. SUCH PROTOCOLS SHALL PERMIT  THE  ADMINISTRATION  OF
 BUPRENORPHINE UPON A PARAMEDIC RECEIVING:
   (A) AUTHORIZATION FROM THE PHYSICIAN SUPERVISING SUCH PARAMEDIC; AND
   (B)  INFORMED CONSENT FROM THE PERSON RECEIVING SUCH EMERGENCY MEDICAL
 SERVICES.
   § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 3055  to
 read as follows:
   §  3055.  BUPRENORPHINE ADMINISTRATION. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE
 THE TRAINING PROGRAM RELATING TO  THE  ADMINISTRATION  OF  BUPRENORPHINE
 UPON  THE  ADMINISTRATION  OF  NALOXONE  PURSUANT  TO SUBDIVISION TEN OF
 SECTION THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED NINE OF  THIS  CHAPTER  TO  ALL  PARAMEDICS
 PROVIDING  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL SERVICES. UPON COMPLETION OF SUCH TRAINING
 PARAMEDICS SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO CARRY BUPRENORPHINE FOR ADMINISTRATION
 IN CASES OF A SUSPECTED OVERDOSE PURSUANT TO THE ESTABLISHED PROTOCOLS.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05629-01-5

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2025-A2253A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3351, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A9584
2021-2022: A3462
2023-2024: A942

2025-A2253A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to dispensing certain controlled substances for use by a person with a substance use disorder during certain emergency medical treatment, or to relieve acute withdrawal symptoms.

2025-A2253A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2253--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. ROSENTHAL, SANTABARBARA, MEEKS -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on
   Health in accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to dispensing certain
   controlled  substances for use by a person with a substance use disor-
   der
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3351 of the public health
 law, as amended by chapter 511 of the laws of 2025, are amended to  read
 as follows:
   1.  Controlled  substances  may  be prescribed for, or administered or
 dispensed to a person with substance use disorder or habitual user:
   (a) during emergency  medical  treatment  unrelated  to  [abuse]  SUCH
 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER OR HABITUAL USE of controlled substances;
   (b)  who  is a bona fide patient suffering from an incurable and fatal
 disease such as cancer or advanced tuberculosis;
   (c) who is aged, infirm, or suffering from serious injury  or  illness
 and the withdrawal from controlled substances would endanger the life or
 impede or inhibit the recovery of such person.
   2.  Controlled  substances  may  be  ordered  for use by a person with
 substance use disorder or habitual user by a practitioner  and  adminis-
 tered  by  a  practitioner  [or], registered nurse, OR EMERGENCY MEDICAL
 TECHNICIAN-PARAMEDIC, ACTING WITHIN THEIR SCOPE OF PRACTICE, to  relieve
 acute withdrawal symptoms.
   § 2. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 3351 of the public health law, as
 separately  amended  by  chapters  511  and 546 of the laws of 2025, are
 amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05629-02-6
 A. 2253--A                          2

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