Bill Text: NY S07102 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the training requirements for prescribers of certain pain medications.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-04 - referred to higher education [S07102 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7102

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2020
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        Introduced  by Sen. BENJAMIN -- 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 training for pres-
          cribers of certain pain medications

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (c)  of subdivision 3 of section 3309-a of the
     2  public health law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 71 of  the
     3  laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (c) The commissioner, in consultation with the department of education
     5  and  the  office  of [alcoholism and substance abuse] addiction services
     6  and supports, shall establish standards and review  and  approve  course
     7  work  or training in pain management, palliative care, and addiction and
     8  update such standards and approvals as necessary according to best prac-
     9  tices for providing patient centered  care  with  the  consideration  of
    10  social  determinants  of  health  and  co-occuring  disorders  and shall
    11  publish information related to such standards, course work  or  training
    12  on the department's website.
    13    §  2.  Paragraph  (f) of subdivision 3 of section 3309-a of the public
    14  health law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 71 of the laws of
    15  2016, is amended to read as follows:
    16    (f) Course work or training shall include,  but  not  be  limited  to:
    17  state  and  federal  requirements for prescribing controlled substances;
    18  pain management; appropriate prescribing; managing acute  pain;  pallia-
    19  tive  medicine; prevention, screening and signs of [addiction] substance
    20  use disorder; responses to abuse and  addiction;  techniques  that  will
    21  reduce the likelihood of overdose and the spread of blood-borne diseases
    22  by those who use drugs; medications used for the treatment of addiction,
    23  including information about becoming a buprenorphine prescriber; and end
    24  of life care.
    25    § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    26  it  shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    27  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
     2  completed  by  the  department  of health in consultation with the state
     3  education department and the office of addiction services  and  supports
     4  on or before such effective date.