Bill Text: NY A00336 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that with the first opioid prescription of each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or nursing home under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under article thirty-one of the mental hygiene law, or when a practitioner is prescribing a controlled substance to a patient under the care of hospice, the prescriber shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present: a history of substance abuse disorder; high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in 90 morphine milligram equivalents or higher per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-30 - signed chap.803 [A00336 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00336-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         336--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BRAUNSTEIN, DINOWITZ, OTIS, CYMBROWITZ, AUBRY,
          L. ROSENTHAL, FERNANDEZ, STERN, HEVESI, HUNTER, JOYNER, PERRY,  RAMOS,
          STECK, BARRON, McDONALD -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH --
          read  once  and  referred  to  the Committee on Health -- 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 public health law, in  relation  to  prescribing  an
          opioid  antagonist  with  a  patient's  first opioid prescription in a
          given year

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

     1    Section  1. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 7 to read as follows:
     3    7. With the first prescription to a particular patient of an opioid of
     4  each year for use in a setting other than a general hospital or  nursing
     5  home  under article twenty-eight of this chapter or facility under arti-
     6  cle thirty-one of the mental hygiene law,  or  when  a  practitioner  is
     7  prescribing  a  controlled  substance  to  a  patient  under the care of
     8  hospice as defined by section four thousand two  of  this  chapter,  the
     9  prescriber  shall prescribe an opioid antagonist when any of the follow-
    10  ing risk factors are present: (a) a history of substance  use  disorder;
    11  (b) high dose or cumulative prescriptions that result in ninety morphine
    12  milligram  equivalents  or higher per day; (c) concurrent use of opioids
    13  and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    15  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    16  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    17  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    18  completed by the commissioner of health  on  or  before  such  effective
    19  date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03417-04-1