Bill Text: NY A05603 | 2019-2020 | 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 over 50 morphine milligram equivalents per day; concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine or nonbenzodiazepine sedative hypnotics.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to ways and means [A05603 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A05603-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5603--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 13, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, DINOWITZ, OTIS, CYMBROWITZ -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and  referred  to  the
          Committee  on  Health  --  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, the prescriber shall prescribe
     7  an opioid antagonist when any of the following risk factors are present:
     8  (a) a history of substance use disorder; (b)  high  dose  or  cumulative
     9  prescriptions  that  result in over fifty morphine milligram equivalents
    10  per day; (c) concurrent use of opioids and benzodiazepine  or  nonbenzo-
    11  diazepine sedative hypnotics.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    13  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    14  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    15  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    16  completed  by  the  commissioner  of  health on or before such effective
    17  date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01771-07-9