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

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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-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5984

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 28, 2023
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        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 increasing 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] seventy-two hours.
    12    § 2.  This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09730-01-3