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Assembly Bill A9474

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Replaces the term addict with the term person with substance use disorder

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2025-A9474 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S8758
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3351, Pub Health L (as proposed in S.3416-D & A.5892-B)

2025-A9474 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Replaces the term addict with the term person with substance use disorder.

2025-A9474 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9474
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 7, 2026
                                ___________
 
 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 replacing the term
   addict with the term person with substance use disorder
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 3351 of the public health law,  as
 amended  by a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public health law
 relating to authorizing institutional dispensers to dispense  controlled
 substances  for  use off premises in an emergency situation for at least
 three  days  and  authorizing  practitioners  to   dispense   controlled
 substances  for  use  in  maintenance  or detoxification treatment to an
 addict or habitual user, as proposed in  legislative  bills  numbers  S.
 3416-D and A. 5892-B, is amended to read as follows:
   3. A practitioner may prescribe, administer, and dispense any schedule
 III, IV, or V narcotic drug approved by the federal food and drug admin-
 istration  specifically  for use in maintenance or detoxification treat-
 ment to [an addict] A PERSON WITH SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER    or  habitual
 user.
   §  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the public  health  law
 relating  to authorizing institutional dispensers to dispense controlled
 substances for use off premises in an emergency situation for  at  least
 three   days   and  authorizing  practitioners  to  dispense  controlled
 substances for use in maintenance  or  detoxification  treatment  to  an
 addict  or  habitual  user,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.
 3416-D and A. 5892-B, takes effect.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07703-11-6

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