Bill Text: NY S07605 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of dispensing an opioid prescription at no cost to the ultimate user of such prescribed opioid.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S07605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S07605-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7605

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    December 15, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. KENNEDY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the public  health  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  a
          personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of
          dispensing an opioid prescription

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

     1    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
     2  3309-b to read as follows:
     3    §  3309-b.  Opioid personal use pharmaceutical disposal systems. 1. No
     4  person in the state shall dispense an opioid prescription to  the  ulti-
     5  mate  user  of  such  prescribed  opioid unless such person additionally
     6  provides to such ultimate user a personal  use  pharmaceutical  disposal
     7  system at no cost to such ultimate user.
     8    2. Each county health department shall provide personal use pharmaceu-
     9  tical  disposal  systems  to  each pharmacy in such county at no cost to
    10  such pharmacy to be distributed pursuant to the provisions  of  subdivi-
    11  sion one of this section. Personal  use  pharmaceutical disposal systems
    12  shall  either  be  provided  to  each  county  health  department by the
    13  manufacturer of each opioid distributed in such county  at  no  cost  to
    14  such  county health department, or acquired by the county health depart-
    15  ment through the use of funds made available from the opioid  settlement
    16  fund established pursuant to section ninety-nine-nn of the state finance
    17  law.
    18    3.  A county health department may establish administrative procedures
    19  to implement the provisions of this section.
    20    4. As used in this section:
    21    (a) "Personal use pharmaceutical disposal  system"  means  a  portable
    22  product  designed  for personal use by the ultimate user for the purpose
    23  of allowing the ultimate user of a prescribed opioid to  deactivate  the
    24  prescribed opioid to a non-retrievable condition or state.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13286-02-1
        S. 7605                             2

     1    (b)  "Ultimate user" means a person who has lawfully obtained, and who
     2  possesses, a prescribed opioid for his or her own use or for the use  of
     3  a member of his or her household.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     5  it shall have become a law.