Bill Text: NY A00206 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires homeless shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand at all times and trained personnel when required by applicable law, regulation, code, or operating plan approved by a social services district or the commissioner otherwise requires employees to be at the premises; sets out the requirements for the training of those employees; develops a training plan for opioid overdoses in conjunction with a registered opioid overdose prevention program.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-15 - print number 206a [A00206 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00206-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         206--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, STIRPE -- read once and referred to
          the  Committee  on  Social Services -- recommitted to the Committee on
          Social Services in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- reported
          and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Ways  and  Means  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring home-
          less shelters to keep an opioid antagonist on hand, have at least  one
          trained  employee  on  duty at all times, and provide an opioid antag-
          onist training program for residents

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Article 2-A of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new title 3 to read as follows:
     3                                   TITLE 3
     4                   OPIOID ANTAGONISTS IN HOMELESS SHELTERS
     5  Section 47. Opioid antagonist use and training.
     6    § 47. Opioid antagonist use and training. 1. Any provider of temporary
     7  housing assistance, which shall include, but not be limited to, a family
     8  shelter, a shelter for adults, a hotel, an emergency apartment, a domes-
     9  tic  violence  shelter,  a runaway and homeless youth shelter, or a safe
    10  house for refugees operating in this state shall have at its premises:
    11    (a) an opioid antagonist and a method of administering it on  site  at
    12  all times which may include, but not be limited to, a naloxone kit; and
    13    (b)  at  a  minimum,  one employee trained in the administration of an
    14  opioid antagonist on duty at all times when applicable law,  regulation,
    15  code,  or  operating  plan approved by a social services district or the
    16  commissioner otherwise requires employees to be at the premises.
    17    2. All employees of providers of temporary housing assistance who  are
    18  authorized to administer an opioid antagonist shall:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00670-02-4
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     1    (a)  have  completed  an initial training program, which may include a
     2  department of health  registered  opioid  overdose  prevention  training
     3  program;
     4    (b) complete a refresher training program at least every two years;
     5    (c)  contact  the  emergency  medical  system during any response to a
     6  victim of suspected drug overdose and advise if an opioid antagonist  is
     7  being used;
     8    (d)  comply  with  protocols for response to victims of suspected drug
     9  overdose; and
    10    (e) report all responses to victims of suspected drug overdose to  the
    11  department of health.
    12    3.  All  providers  of  temporary  housing  assistance shall develop a
    13  training  plan  in  conjunction  with  a  registered   opioid   overdose
    14  prevention program in the applicable region regarding the administration
    15  of  opioid  antagonists to any individual residing on a provider's prem-
    16  ises who is at risk of experiencing or witnessing an opioid overdose.
    17    4. For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "opioid  antagonist"
    18  shall  mean  a  federal food and drug administration-approved drug that,
    19  when administered, negates or neutralizes in whole or in part the  phar-
    20  macological  effects  of  an  opioid  in the body and that is limited to
    21  naloxone or other medications approved by the department of  health  for
    22  this  purpose and "naloxone kit" shall mean a prefilled naloxone syringe
    23  or needle-free intranasal drug delivery device.
    24    5. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate rules and  regulations
    25  necessary for the implementation of this title.
    26    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    27  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    28  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    29  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    30  on or before such effective date.