Bill Text: NY A01049 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes pain management medications that the decedent was prescribed, such as gabapentin, on a death certificate where a death is caused by an opioid overdose.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A01049 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A01049-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1049 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including pain management medications on a death certificate where a death is caused by an opioid overdose The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the 2 public health law, as amended by chapter 443 of the laws of 2019, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (d) Where a death is caused by an opioid overdose, such information 5 shall be indicated on the certificate, including, if known to the person 6 completing the death certificate, the specific opioid that caused the 7 death of the decedent and any other pain management medications, includ- 8 ing but not limited to gabapentin, that the decedent was prescribed, 9 along with any other related information as the commissioner may 10 require. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02537-01-3