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