Assembly Bill A1043

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires hospital and emergency room physicians to notify a patient's prescriber that such patient is being treated for a controlled substance overdose

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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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2017-A1043 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2639
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3371 & 3343-a, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A10229, S7946
2019-2020: S3271
2021-2022: S6168
2023-2024: S4758

2017-A1043 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hospital and emergency room physicians to consult the prescription monitoring program registry and to notify a patient's prescriber that such patient is being treated for a controlled substance overdose.

2017-A1043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1043
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. CUSICK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospital
   and  emergency  room  physicians to notify a patient's prescriber that
   such patient is being treated for a controlled substance overdose

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraphs (i) and (j) of subdivision 1 of section 3371 of
 the public health law, as added by section 4 of part A of chapter 447 of
 the laws of 2012, are amended to read as follows:
   (i) to a medical examiner or coroner who is an officer of or  employed
 by  a state or local government, pursuant to his or her official duties;
 [and]
   (j) to an individual for the purpose of providing such individual with
 his or her own controlled substance history or, in  appropriate  circum-
 stances, in the case of a patient who lacks capacity to make health care
 decisions,  a  person who has legal authority to make such decisions for
 the patient and who would have legal access to the patient's health care
 records, if requested from the department pursuant to subdivision six of
 section thirty-three hundred forty-three-a of this  article  or  from  a
 treating  practitioner pursuant to subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of
 subdivision two of this section; AND
   (K) TO A PRACTITIONER TO INFORM HIM OR HER THAT  A  PATIENT  IS  UNDER
 TREATMENT  FOR  A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE OVERDOSE BY HOSPITAL OR EMERGENCY
 ROOM PRACTITIONER FOR THE PURPOSES OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS SECTION.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of  section  3371  of  the  public
 health  law, as amended by chapter 90 of the laws of 2014, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (a) a practitioner, or a  designee  authorized  by  such  practitioner
 pursuant  to  paragraph  (b)  of subdivision two of section thirty-three
 hundred forty-three-a or section thirty-three hundred sixty-one of  this
 article,  for  the  purposes  of:  (i) informing the practitioner that a
 patient may be under treatment with a controlled  substance  by  another
 practitioner  OR  THAT  A  PATIENT  IS  UNDER TREATMENT FOR A CONTROLLED
              

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