Bill Text: NY S05653 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the department of health analysis of data in the prescription monitoring program registry.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to health [S05653 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05653-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5653--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. METZGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to department analy- sis of the prescription monitoring program registry The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3343-a of the public health law, 2 as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 447 of the laws of 2012, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 7. Department analysis of data. The department shall periodically 5 analyze data contained in the prescription monitoring program registry 6 to identify information that indicates that a violation of law or breach 7 of professional standards may have occurred, including the inappropriate 8 prescribing of controlled substances and, as warranted, provide any 9 relevant information to appropriate entities as permitted under section 10 thirty-three hundred seventy-one of this article. The department shall 11 keep a record of the information provided, including, but not limited 12 to, the specific information provided and the agency to which such 13 information was provided, including the name and title of the person to 14 whom such information was provided and an attestation from such person 15 that he or she has authority to receive such information. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11627-02-9