Bill Text: NY S05369 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits nursing homes and care facilities that are registered with the state of New York and registered with the federal Drug Enforcement Agency, that maintains a stock of, and directly dispenses, controlled substance medications from denying admission to individuals receiving a controlled substance medication for a substance use disorder.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05369 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S05369-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5369 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 3, 2023 ___________ 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 prohibiting nurs- ing homes and care facilities from denying admission to individuals receiving a controlled substance medication for a substance use disor- der The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-c of the public health law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph s to read as follows: 3 s. No nursing home or facility providing health related services, 4 which is registered with the state of New York and registered with the 5 federal Drug Enforcement Agency, that maintains a stock of, and directly 6 dispenses, controlled substance medications, as defined in section thir- 7 ty-three hundred six of this chapter, shall deny admission to an indi- 8 vidual who is receiving a controlled substance medication for a 9 substance use disorder. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09235-01-3
