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Assembly Bill A3963

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes Suvorexant in the Schedule IV list of depressant drugs

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2025-A3963 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3306, Pub Health L

2025-A3963 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes sleep medication Suvorexant in the Schedule IV list of depressant drugs.

2025-A3963 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3963
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including Suvorex-
   ant in the Schedule IV list of depressant drugs
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision (c) of schedule  IV  of  section  3306  of  the
 public  health  law  is  amended by adding a new paragraph 54 to read as
 follows:
   (54) SUVOREXANT.
   § 2. 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.
                                                            LBD07509-01-5

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