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Assembly Bill A8948A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder

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2025-A8948 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §19.09, Ment Hyg L

2025-A8948 - Summary

Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder.

2025-A8948 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8948
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  distribution
   in  counties  with  the  most  prevalent  prescription opioid abuse of
   educational  materials  regarding  the  misuse  of  and  addiction  to
   prescription drugs

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (j) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene  law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
   (4) UTILIZING DATA THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE OFFICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 LIMITED TO, INFORMATION OBTAINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION
 THIRTY-THREE  HUNDRED  NINE-A OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, THE COMMISSIONER
 SHALL IDENTIFY THE COUNTIES IN NEW YORK STATE WHERE PRESCRIPTION  OPIOID
 ABUSE  IS  MOST PREVALENT. PHARMACISTS LICENSED BY THE STATE TO DISPENSE
 PRESCRIPTION DRUGS MAY BE NOTIFIED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COMMISSIONER
 IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ABOUT THE PREVALENCE  OF
 OPIOID  ABUSE  IN  THE  COUNTY IN WHICH SUCH PHARMACISTS ARE LOCATED AND
 ENCOURAGE THE FACILITIES  WHERE  PRESCRIPTION  DRUGS  ARE  DISPENSED  TO
 DISTRIBUTE MATERIALS CREATED OR UTILIZED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10508-01-5

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2025-A8948A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §19.09, Ment Hyg L

2025-A8948A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder.

2025-A8948A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8948--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- recommitted to the Committee on  Alco-
   holism  and  Drug  Abuse 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 mental hygiene law, in relation to the distribution
   in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use  disor-
   der  of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to
   prescription drugs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision (j) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
   (4) UTILIZING DATA THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE OFFICE,  THE  COMMISSIONER
 SHALL  IDENTIFY  THE  COUNTIES  IN  NEW  YORK  STATE  WHERE PRESCRIPTION
 SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER IS MOST PREVALENT. PHARMACISTS  LICENSED  BY  THE
 STATE  TO  DISPENSE PRESCRIPTION DRUGS MAY BE NOTIFIED AT THE DISCRETION
 OF THE COMMISSIONER IN COLLABORATION  WITH  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH,
 ABOUT  THE  PREVALENCE  OF SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER IN THE COUNTY IN WHICH
 SUCH PHARMACISTS ARE LOCATED AND MAY DISTRIBUTE MATERIALS CREATED PURSU-
 ANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10508-02-6

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