Assembly Bill A4316

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A4316 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2700
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §2803-u, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A7376, S5121

2023-A4316 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.

2023-A4316 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4316
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  STECK, OTIS -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  requiring  hospi-
   tals to provide medically supervised detoxification services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 2 of  section  2803-u
 of  the public health law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 70
 of the laws of 2016, are amended and a new paragraph  (d)  is  added  to
 read as follows:
   (b)  establish  and implement training, within existing or in addition
 to current training programs, for all individuals licensed or  certified
 pursuant  to title eight of the education law who provide direct patient
 care regarding the policies and procedures established pursuant to  this
 section; [and]
   (c)  except  where  an  individual  has  come  into the hospital under
 section 22.09 of the mental  hygiene  law,  if  the  hospital  does  not
 directly  provide  substance  use disorder services, then it shall refer
 individuals in need of substance use disorder services to and coordinate
 with substance use disorder services programs  that  provide  behavioral
 health  services,  as  defined  in  section  1.03  of the mental hygiene
 law[.]; AND
   (D)  PROVIDE  MEDICALLY  SUPERVISED  DETOXIFICATION  SERVICES  TO  ALL
 PATIENTS  REQUIRING  SUCH SERVICES; PROVIDED, THAT IF THE HOSPITAL IS AT
 NINETY PERCENT CAPACITY OR GREATER,  SUCH  HOSPITAL  SHALL  CONNECT  THE
 PATIENT  TO  AN  ALTERNATIVE  FACILITY  WITHIN SUCH PATIENT'S NETWORK TO
 ACCESS SUCH MEDICALLY SUPERVISED  DETOXIFICATION  SERVICES  WITHOUT  ANY
 INCREASED RISK TO THE HEALTH OR LIFE OF THE PATIENT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06390-01-3

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