Bill Text: NY S08708 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires public entities to maintain a stock of opioid antagonists to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-05-25 - referred to health [S08708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S08708-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8708--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      April 1, 2022
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Abuse  --  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  public
          entities to maintain a stock of opioid antagonists

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

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  "Erin's law".
     3    §  2.  Subparagraph  (v)  of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section
     4  3309 of the public health law, as added by chapter 148 of  the  laws  of
     5  2020, is amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
     6    (v) As used in this section, "entity" or "public entity" includes, but
     7  is  not  limited to, a school district, public library, board of cooper-
     8  ative educational services, county vocational  education  and  extension
     9  board,  charter  school,  non-public  elementary  or  secondary  school,
    10  restaurant, bar,  retail  store,  shopping  mall,  barber  shop,  beauty
    11  parlor, theater, sporting or event center, inn, hotel or motel.
    12    8.  The  commissioner  shall  require  all public entities to maintain
    13  on-site opioid antagonists,  in  quantities  and  types  deemed  by  the
    14  commissioner,  to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for
    15  use during emergencies to any individual on the premises of such  public
    16  entity  suspected of having an opioid overdose whether or not there is a
    17  previous history of opioid abuse at such public entity.  The commission-
    18  er shall establish a process by  which  public  entities  may  apply  to
    19  receive  opioid  antagonists free of charge. Such process shall be oper-
    20  ated in compliance with existing laws, rules, and  regulations  relating
    21  to the distribution of an opioid antagonist.
    22    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14558-02-2