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Senate Bill S4639

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to funds received pursuant to a New York opioid settlement sharing agreement

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2025-S4639 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6554
Current Committee:
Senate Alcoholism And Substance Use Disorders
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §25.18, Ment Hyg L

2025-S4639 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to reporting on funds received pursuant to a New York opioid settlement sharing agreement.

2025-S4639 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4639 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4639
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance
   Use Disorders
 
 AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation  to  funds  received
   pursuant to a New York opioid settlement sharing agreement

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph 10 of subdivision (c) of  section  25.18  of  the
 mental  hygiene  law,  as amended by chapter 171 of the laws of 2022, is
 amended to read as follows:
   10. On or before November first of each year, beginning one year after
 the initial deposit of monies in the opioid settlement fund,  the  rele-
 vant  commissioners[,]  shall  provide a written report to the governor,
 temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, chair of the
 senate finance committee, chair of the assembly ways and  means  commit-
 tee,  chair of the senate alcoholism and substance [abuse] USE DISORDERS
 committee, chair of the assembly alcoholism and  drug  abuse  committee,
 and the opioid settlement advisory board. Such report shall be presented
 as  a  consolidated  dashboard  and  be  made  publicly available on the
 respective offices' websites. The report shall, to the extent  practica-
 ble  after  making  all  diligent  efforts  to  obtain such information,
 include the following: (i) the baseline  funding  for  any  entity  that
 receives funding from the opioid settlement fund OR OTHER FUNDS RECEIVED
 PURSUANT TO A NEW YORK OPIOID SETTLEMENT SHARING AGREEMENT, prior to the
 receipt  of  such [opioid settlement] funds; (ii) how funds deposited in
 the opioid settlement fund AND OTHER FUNDS RECEIVED PURSUANT  TO  A  NEW
 YORK  OPIOID  SETTLEMENT  SHARING  AGREEMENT  had  been  utilized in the
 preceding calendar year, including but not limited to: (A) the amount of
 money disbursed [from the fund] and the  award  process  used  for  such
 disbursement,  if  applicable;  (B)  the  names  of  the recipients, the
 amounts awarded to such recipient and details  about  the  purpose  such
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08762-02-5

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