Bill Text: NY S09289 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires nightlife establishments, sporting or event centers, theaters, concert venues, and amusement parks maintain a supply of opioid antagonists.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-09 - REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS [S09289 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09289-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9289

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 9, 2024
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        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance
          Use Disorders

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  certain
          locations and venues maintain a supply of opioid antagonists

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 8 of section 3309 of the public health law,  as
     2  added by chapter 83 of the laws of 2023, is amended to read as follows:
     3    8. The commissioner shall establish guidelines for onsite opioid over-
     4  dose  response  capacity  in nightlife establishments, sporting or event
     5  centers, theaters, concert venues, and amusement parks. Such  guidelines
     6  shall include, but shall not be limited to:
     7    (a)  maintaining  a supply of unexpired opioid antagonist nasal spray;
     8  and
     9    (b) having employed and at such  location  whenever  in  operation  at
    10  least  two  persons  trained  in  identifying opioid overdoses and using
    11  opioid antagonists.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14868-01-4