Assembly Bill A9365

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to prescribing an opioid antagonist with a patient's first opioid analgesic prescription each year

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A9365 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง3302 & 3309, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A661
2017-2018: A1531

2013-A9365 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that every initial opioid analgesic prescription per year shall be accompanied with a prescription for an opioid antagonist.

2013-A9365 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9365

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 23, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BRAUNSTEIN  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in  relation  to  prescribing  an
  opioid antagonist with a patient's first opioid analgesic prescription
  in a given year

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 3302 of the public health law is amended by  adding
two new subdivisions 44 and 45 to read as follows:
  44. "OPIOID ANALGESICS" MEANS THE MEDICINES BUPRENOPHINE, BUTORPHANOL,
CODEINE, HYDROCODONE, HYDROMORPHONE, LEVORPHANOL, MEPERIDINE, METHADONE,
MORPHINE,  NALBUPHINE, OXYCODONE, OXYMORPHONE, PENTAZOCINE, PROPOXYPHENE
AS WELL AS THEIR BRAND NAMES, ISOMERS AND COMBINATIONS.
  45. "OPIOID ANTAGONIST" MEANS AN FDA-APPROVED DRUG THAT, WHEN ADMINIS-
TERED, NEGATES OR NEUTRALIZES IN WHOLE OR IN  PART  THE  PHARMACOLOGICAL
EFFECTS  OF  AN  OPIOID IN THE BODY. THE OPIOID ANTAGONIST IS LIMITED TO
NALOXONE OR OTHER  MEDICATIONS  APPROVED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  FOR  THIS
PURPOSE.
  S  2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 5 to read as follows:
  5. EVERY INITIAL OPIOID  ANALGESIC  PRESCRIPTION  PER  YEAR  SHALL  BE
ACCOMPANIED WITH A PRESCRIPTION FOR AN OPIOID ANTAGONIST.
  S  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
for the implementation of this act on its effective date  is  authorized
to be made and completed by the commissioner of health on or before such
effective date.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD14605-03-4

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