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Senate Bill S6290

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires quarterly reporting on the amounts awarded and received from the opioid settlement fund

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2025-S6290 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A504
Current Committee:
Senate Alcoholism And Substance Use Disorders
Law Section:
Mental Hygiene Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §25.18, Ment Hyg L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S9859, A5807

2025-S6290 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires quarterly reporting on the opioid settlement fund, including the names of the recipients and the amounts awarded and received.

2025-S6290 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6290 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6290
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 10, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- 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 requiring a quar-
   terly report on the opioid settlement fund

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision (c) of section 25.18 of the mental hygiene  law
 is amended by adding a new paragraph 11 to read as follows:
   11.  THE RELEVANT COMMISSIONERS SHALL SUBMIT A QUARTERLY REPORT TO THE
 OPIOID SETTLEMENT BOARD, THE TEMPORARY  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  SENATE,  THE
 SPEAKER  OF  THE  ASSEMBLY,  AND  THE  CHAIRS OF THE SENATE AND ASSEMBLY
 COMMITTEES ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE, THAT SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT  BE
 LIMITED TO, THE AMOUNT OF THE FUNDS CURRENTLY HELD IN THE OPIOID SETTLE-
 MENT FUND, THE AMOUNTS DISBURSED THAT QUARTER, THE NAMES, ADDRESSES, AND
 AMOUNTS  AWARDED  TO  THE  RECIPIENTS, AND THE NAMES, ADDRESSES, AND THE
 AMOUNTS RECEIVED BY THE RECIPIENTS, FOR  SUCH  QUARTER.  SUCH  QUARTERLY
 REPORT SHALL BE COMPILED WITH PREVIOUSLY SUBMITTED QUARTERLY REPORTS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01091-01-5

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