Bill Text: NY A09574 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes pain management medications that the decedent was prescribed, such as gabapentin, on a death certificate where a death is caused by an opioid overdose.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-24 - referred to health [A09574 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09574-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9574

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 24, 2020
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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 including pain
          management medications on a death certificate where a death is  caused
          by an opioid overdose

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision  4  of  section  4141  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 443 of the laws of 2019, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (d) Where a death is caused by an opioid  overdose,  such  information
     5  shall be indicated on the certificate, including, if known to the person
     6  completing  the  death  certificate, the specific opioid that caused the
     7  death of the decedent and any other pain management medications, includ-
     8  ing but not limited to gabapentin, that  the  decedent  was  prescribed,
     9  along  with  any  other  related  information  as  the  commissioner may
    10  require.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14287-01-9