Bill Text: NY A05984 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Allows a practitioner in a hospital without a full-time pharmacy to dispense to a patient in a hospital emergency room for use off the premises a 24 hour supply of certain drugs, unless the federal drug enforcement administration has authorized a longer time period for the purpose of initiating maintenance treatment, detoxification treatment, or both.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A05984 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A05984-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5984--B

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee  on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance
          with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee  discharged,  bill  amended,
          ordered  reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted to said committee --
          again reported from said committee with amendments, ordered  reprinted
          as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public health law, in relation to the supply of
          controlled substances a practitioner in a hospital without a full-time
          pharmacy may dispense to a patient in a hospital  emergency  room  for
          use off the premises

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3342 of the public health law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  692  of  the  laws  of 1976, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. An institutional dispenser may dispense controlled  substances  for
     5  use off its premises only pursuant to a prescription, prepared and filed
     6  in  conformity with this title, provided, however, that, in an emergency
     7  situation as defined by rule or regulation of the department, a  practi-
     8  tioner   in  a  hospital  without  a  full-time  pharmacy  may  dispense
     9  controlled substances to a patient in a hospital emergency room for  use
    10  off  the  premises  of  the  institutional dispenser for a period not to
    11  exceed twenty-four hours, unless the federal drug  enforcement  adminis-
    12  tration has authorized a longer time period for the purpose of  initiat-
    13  ing maintenance treatment, detoxification treatment, or both.
    14    §  2.   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.
                                                                   LBD09730-04-4