Bill Text: NY A01676 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the drug overdose prevention act; provides for the reporting of deaths attributable to drug overdoses; provides for the commissioner of health to provide advice to localities relating to drug overdose prevention.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-06 - enacting clause stricken [A01676 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-A01676-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1676
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 11, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GOTTFRIED, ABBATE -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to preventing deaths
caused by drug overdose
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "drug over-
2 dose prevention act".
3 S 2. Article 2 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
4 title 6 to read as follows:
5 TITLE VI
6 DRUG OVERDOSE PREVENTION
7 SECTION 266. DEFINITIONS.
8 267. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
9 268. ADVICE REGARDING DRUG OVERDOSE.
10 S 266. DEFINITIONS. WHEN USED IN THIS TITLE:
11 1. "DEPARTMENT" MEANS THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
12 2. "COMMISSIONER" MEANS THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH.
13 S 267. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. 1. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PUBLISH,
14 BASED ON INFORMATION COLLECTED PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR THOUSAND ONE
15 HUNDRED FORTY-ONE OF THIS CHAPTER, FINDINGS ON STATEWIDE DRUG OVERDOSE
16 TRENDS THAT REVIEW OVERDOSE DEATH RATES AND OTHER INFORMATION TO ASCER-
17 TAIN CHANGES IN THE CAUSE AND RATES OF FATAL DRUG OVERDOSES FOR AN
18 APPROPRIATE PERIOD OF TIME. THE REPORT SHALL ALSO PROVIDE INFORMATION ON
19 INTERVENTIONS THAT WOULD BE EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING THE RATE OF DRUG OVER-
20 DOSE.
21 2. THE REPORT SHALL INCLUDE, AT A MINIMUM THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION:
22 (A) TRENDS IN DRUG OVERDOSE DEATHS;
23 (B) TRENDS IN EMERGENCY ROOM UTILIZATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF DRUG
24 OVERDOSE;
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (C) TRENDS IN UTILIZATION OF PRE-HOSPITAL AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AND
2 THE COST OF EMERGENCY SERVICES UTILIZATION FOR DRUG OVERDOSE;
3 (D) SUGGESTED IMPROVEMENTS IN DATA COLLECTION; AND
4 (E) A DESCRIPTION OF EDUCATION EFFORTS AND OTHER INTERVENTIONS THAT
5 WOULD BE EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING THE RATE OF DRUG OVERDOSE.
6 3. THE REPORT MAY BE PART OF EXISTING STATE MORTALITY REPORTS ISSUED
7 BY THE DEPARTMENT, AND SHALL BE SUBMITTED ANNUALLY TO THE GOVERNOR, THE
8 TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE AND THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY.
9 S 268. ADVICE REGARDING DRUG OVERDOSE. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, AS
10 NEEDED, PROVIDE ADVICE TO APPROPRIATE STATE, COUNTY AND CITY OFFICIALS
11 WITH REGARD TO DRUG OVERDOSE, INCLUDING:
12 1. THE PREVALENCE OF DRUG OVERDOSE INCIDENTS;
13 2. TRENDS IN DRUG OVERDOSE INCIDENTS; AND
14 3. STRATEGIES FOR ADDRESSING DRUG OVERDOSE IN THEIR JURISDICTION.
15 S 3. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the public
16 health law, as added by chapter 413 of the laws of 2005, is amended to
17 read as follows:
18 (d) Where a death is caused by [an opioid] DRUG overdose, such infor-
19 mation shall be indicated, including any [related] SPECIFIC information
20 CONCERNING THE DRUG OR DRUGS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH, AND ANY OTHER
21 INFORMATION RELATED TO THE OVERDOSE DEATH as the commissioner [may]
22 SHALL require.
23 S 4. This act shall take effect on the first of April next succeeding
24 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however, that
25 the commissioner of health is authorized to promulgate any and all rules
26 and regulations and take any other measures necessary to implement this
27 act on its effective date on or before such date.
