Senate Bill S4095

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee


  • 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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2019-S4095 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3302 & 3309, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
S5868

2019-S4095 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that every initial opioid analgesic prescription per year, which is equal to or greater than fifty morphine milligram equivalents, shall be accompanied with a prescription for an opioid antagonist.

2019-S4095 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S4095 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4095
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 28, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
   when printed to be committed 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.
   §  2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 7 to read as follows:
   7. EVERY INITIAL OPIOID ANALGESIC  PRESCRIPTION  PER  YEAR,  WHICH  IS
 EQUAL  TO OR GREATER THAN FIFTY MORPHINE MILLIGRAM EQUIVALENTS, SHALL BE
 ACCOMPANIED WITH A PRESCRIPTION FOR AN OPIOID ANTAGONIST.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth 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
 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.
                                                            LBD01771-01-9

              

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