Bill Text: NY A05004 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that when informational cards or sheets about opioid antagonists are distributed, such information shall include information about fentanyl strips and their uses.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-4)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-09 - substituted by s4393 [A05004 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05004-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5004

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to  the  distribution
          of information about fentanyl test strips and their uses

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

     1    Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3-a of section 3309 of
     2  the public health law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    Any distribution of opioid  antagonists  through  this  program  shall
     5  include  an  informational  card or sheet, and fentanyl test strips. The
     6  informational card or sheet shall include, at a minimum, information on:
     7    § 2. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 3-a of section 3309 of  the
     8  public  health  law,  as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2019, are
     9  amended and a new paragraph (g) is added to read as follows:
    10    (e) the application of good samaritan protections provided in  section
    11  three thousand-a of this chapter; [and]
    12    (f) any other information deemed relevant by the commissioner[.]; and
    13    (g) information about fentanyl test strips and their uses.
    14    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07343-02-3