Bill Text: NY A11011 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing for the use of medical marihuana as an alternative to opioids for pain management and substance use disorder.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - substituted by s8987a [A11011 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11011-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                        11011--B
                                                                   R. R. 201
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      May 30, 2018
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Gottfried,
          Lupardo, L. Rosenthal) -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on
          Health  -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- reported
          and referred to the Committee on Rules -- Rules Committee  discharged,
          bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as  amended and recommitted to the
          Committee on Rules -- again amended on special order of third reading,
          ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the special order  of  third
          reading
        AN  ACT  to amend the public health law, in relation to allowing for the
          use of medical marihuana as an alternative to opioids for pain manage-
          ment and substance use disorder
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  7 of section 3360 of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 403 of the  laws  of  2017,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "Serious condition" means:
     5    (i)  having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten-
     6  ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
     7  or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic  lateral  sclerosis,
     8  Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of
     9  the  spinal  cord  with objective neurological indication of intractable
    10  spasticity,  epilepsy,   inflammatory   bowel   disease,   neuropathies,
    11  Huntington's disease, post-traumatic stress disorder, pain that degrades
    12  health  and  functional capability where the use of medical marihuana is
    13  an alternative to opioid use, substance use disorder, or as added by the
    14  commissioner; and
    15    (ii) any of the following conditions where it is clinically associated
    16  with, or a complication of, a condition  under  this  paragraph  or  its
    17  treatment:  cachexia or wasting syndrome; severe or chronic pain; severe
    18  nausea; seizures; severe or persistent muscle spasms; or such conditions
    19  as are added by the commissioner.
    20    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
    21  the amendments to section 3360 of the public health law, made by section
    22  one  of  this act, shall not affect the repeal of such section and shall
    23  be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15986-05-8