Bill Text: NY S06111 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires prescription containers for opioid medications to have a red cap top and a printed warning about the risks of overdose and addiction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S06111 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06111-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6111--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     March 29, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  ASHBY  -- 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 requiring red cap
          tops with a printed warning for opioid medications

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

     1    Section  1. The opening paragraph and paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdi-
     2  vision 4 of section 3331 of the public health law, as added  by  chapter
     3  415 of the laws of 1981, are amended to read as follows:
     4    No such substance [may] shall be dispensed unless it is enclosed with-
     5  in a suitable and durable container, and:
     6    (b)  Such  container  shall be identified as a controlled substance by
     7  [either]:
     8    (i) an orange label;
     9    (ii) a label of another color over which  is  superimposed  an  orange
    10  transparent adhesive tape; or
    11    (iii) an auxiliary orange label affixed to the front of such container
    12  and  bearing  the  legend,  prominently  marked  or  printed "Controlled
    13  Substance, Dangerous Unless Used As Directed";
    14    (c) Such container shall be sealed with a red cap top with the printed
    15  words:  "Caution: OPIOID. Risk of overdose and addiction", or such simi-
    16  lar wording as developed and approved by the department. If red cap tops
    17  are not readily available due to production delays, such requirement may
    18  be satisfied by placing red stickers on top of existing  caps,  provided
    19  that such red stickers cover most, if not all, of such cap tops; and
    20    (d)  Any label, transparency, or auxiliary label shall be applied in a
    21  manner which would inhibit its removal.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    23  it shall have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10594-02-3