Bill Text: NY S09859 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires quarterly reporting on the opioid settlement fund, including the names of the recipients and the amounts awarded and received.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09859 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09859-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9859

                    IN SENATE

                                      June 6, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring a quar-
          terly report on the opioid settlement fund

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision (c) of section 25.18 of the mental hygiene law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph 11 to read as follows:
     3    11. The relevant commissioners shall submit a quarterly report to  the
     4  opioid  settlement  board,  the  temporary  president of the senate, the
     5  speaker of the assembly, and the  chairs  of  the  senate  and  assembly
     6  committees  on alcoholism and drug abuse, that shall include, but not be
     7  limited to, the amount of the funds currently held in the opioid settle-
     8  ment fund, the amounts disbursed that quarter, the names, addresses, and
     9  amounts awarded to the recipients, and the  names,  addresses,  and  the
    10  amounts  received  by  the  recipients, for such quarter. Such quarterly
    11  report shall be compiled with previously submitted quarterly reports.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10140-03-4
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