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Senate Bill S7508

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires health care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an opioid

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2025-S7508 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4538
Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3309, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8339, A10619
2021-2022: S1546, S8106, A2567
2023-2024: S5101, A2043

2025-S7508 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires health care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an opioid and discuss the dangers of opioid addiction with such patient in a manner consistent with regulations promulgated by the commissioner of health.

2025-S7508 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7508 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7508
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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 public health law, in relation to requiring health
   care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an
   opioid

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (b) of subdivision 3 of
 section 3309 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 42  of  the
 laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   (i)  A  health care professional [may] SHALL prescribe [by] a patient-
 specific or non-patient-specific [prescription] OPIOID  ANTAGONIST  WHEN
 PRESCRIBING AN OPIOID, AND MAY ALSO, dispense or distribute, directly or
 indirectly, an opioid antagonist to an opioid antagonist recipient. SUCH
 HEALTH  CARE  PROFESSIONAL SHALL DISCUSS THE DANGERS OF OPIOID ADDICTION
 WITH SUCH PATIENT IN A MANNER CONSISTENT WITH REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY
 THE COMMISSIONER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08692-01-5

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