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--A

                               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 -- 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

        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,  as
     5  such  term  is  defined  pursuant to subdivision four of section thirty-
     6  three hundred two of this article, for use off its premises only  pursu-
     7  ant to a prescription, prepared and filed in conformity with this title,
     8  provided, however, that, in an emergency situation as defined by rule or
     9  regulation  of  the  department,  a practitioner in a hospital without a
    10  full-time pharmacy may dispense controlled substances to a patient in  a
    11  hospital  emergency  room  for use off the premises of the institutional
    12  dispenser for a period not to exceed  [twenty-four]  seventy-two  hours,
    13  unless  the  federal drug   enforcement  administration has authorized a
    14  longer time period for the purpose of initiating maintenance  treatment,
    15  detoxification treatment, or both.
    16    §  2.   This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09730-03-4