Bill Text: NY S04364 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
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) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S04364 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S04364-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4364 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 3, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee 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. LBD01904-01-1
