Bill Text: NY S05566 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent abuse of prescription opioids.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-06-03 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S05566 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S05566-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5566

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse

        AN  ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the distribution
          in counties with the  most  prevalent  prescription  opioid  abuse  of
          educational  materials  regarding  the  misuse  of  and  addiction  to
          prescription drugs

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (j) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
     3    (4) Utilizing data that is available to the office, including, but not
     4  limited to, information obtained pursuant to subdivision four of section
     5  thirty-three hundred nine-a of the public health law,  the  commissioner
     6  shall  identify the counties in New York state where prescription opioid
     7  abuse is most prevalent. Pharmacists licensed by the state  to  dispense
     8  prescription drugs may be notified at the discretion of the commissioner
     9  in  collaboration with the department of health, about the prevalence of
    10  opioid abuse in the county in which such  pharmacists  are  located  and
    11  encourage  the  facilities  where  prescription  drugs  are dispensed to
    12  distribute materials created or utilized pursuant to this subdivision.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05892-01-1