Assembly Bill A10656

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Directs that the department of health include information regarding the administration of overdose reversal agents on the prescription monitoring program registry

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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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2015-A10656 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง3343-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A2810
2019-2020: A3741

2015-A10656 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the department of health to include information regarding the administration of overdose reversal agents on the prescription monitoring program registry.

2015-A10656 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10656

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 10, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McDonald) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to directing the
  department of health to include  information  regarding  the  adminis-
  tration  of  overdose  reversal  agents on the prescription monitoring
  program registry

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 3343-a of the public health law is
renumbered  subdivision  10  and a new subdivision 9 is added to read as
follows:
  9. (A) NO LATER THAN JANUARY FIRST, TWO THOUSAND EIGHTEEN, THE DEPART-
MENT SHALL INCLUDE  ON  THE  PRESCRIPTION  MONITORING  PROGRAM  REGISTRY
INFORMATION  FOR  EACH  PERSON  TO  WHOM  NALOXONE  OR  ANOTHER OVERDOSE
REVERSAL AGENT HAS BEEN DISPENSED TO ASSIST PHYSICIANS AND  OTHER  PRES-
CRIBERS IDENTIFY PATIENTS WHO HAVE OVERDOSED ON AN OPIOID OR ON HEROIN.
  (B)  ANY  PERSON, INCLUDING A FIRST RESPONDER OR MEDICAL PRACTITIONER,
WHO ADMINISTERS NALOXONE OR ANOTHER OVERDOSE REVERSAL AGENT TO A PATIENT
IN THE CASE OF A SUSPECTED OR CONFIRMED OVERDOSE SHALL REPORT THE ADMIN-
ISTRATION OF THE AGENT TO THE PRESCRIPTION MONITORING  PROGRAM  REGISTRY
WITHIN  SEVENTY-TWO  HOURS  OF ADMINISTRATION. SUCH REPORT SHALL CONTAIN
THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IF AVAILABLE: (I) THE  NAME  OF  THE  PATIENT;
(II) THE ADDRESS OF THE PATIENT; (III) THE DATE OF BIRTH OF THE PATIENT;
(IV)  THE TIME AND PLACE OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE AGENT; AND (V) THE
IDENTITY OF THE PERSON WHO ADMINISTERED THE NALOXONE TO THE PATIENT.
  (C) ANY REPORT MADE PURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE
CONSIDERED TO BE MADE BY THE REPORTER IN THE COURSE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES
AND SHALL BE DIRECTLY RELATED TO PATIENT CARE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15575-01-6

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