Bill Text: NY A03658 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the training requirements for prescribers of certain pain medications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to higher education [A03658 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A03658-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3658

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 28, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Higher Education

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to training for pres-
          cribers of certain pain medications

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of subdivision 3 of section 3309-a of the
     2  public health law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 71 of  the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) The commissioner, in consultation with the department of education
     5  and  the  office  of [alcoholism and substance abuse] addiction services
     6  and supports, shall establish standards and review  and  approve  course
     7  work  or training in pain management, palliative care, and addiction and
     8  update such standards and approvals as necessary according to best prac-
     9  tices for providing patient centered  care  with  the  consideration  of
    10  social  determinants  of  health  and  co-occuring  disorders  and shall
    11  publish information related to such standards, course work  or  training
    12  on the department's website.
    13    §  2.  Paragraph  (f) of subdivision 3 of section 3309-a of the public
    14  health law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 71 of the laws of
    15  2016, is amended to read as follows:
    16    (f) Course work or training shall include,  but  not  be  limited  to:
    17  state  and  federal  requirements for prescribing controlled substances;
    18  pain management; appropriate prescribing; managing acute  pain;  pallia-
    19  tive  medicine; prevention, screening and signs of [addiction] substance
    20  use disorder; responses to abuse and addiction; and end  of  life  care.
    21  For each licensed person due to re-register pursuant to this subdivision
    22  after  July first, two thousand twenty-two, such course work or training
    23  shall also include techniques that will reduce the likelihood  of  over-
    24  dose  and  other  harms  related to the use of controlled substances and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00976-01-1
        A. 3658                             2

     1  medications used for the treatment of addiction,  including  information
     2  about becoming a buprenorphine prescriber.
     3    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
     5  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
     6  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     7  completed  by  the  department  of health in consultation with the state
     8  education department and the office of addiction services  and  supports
     9  on or before such effective date.