Bill Text: NY A05024 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish guidelines for onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers; defines "community center".
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-3)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A05024 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A05024-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5024 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to guidelines for onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 3309 of the 2 public health law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read 3 as follows: 4 (vi) "Community center" means a facility owned and operated by a 5 governmental agency or a nonprofit community organization; provided, 6 that the primary purpose of the facility is for recreation, social 7 welfare, community improvement or public assembly. 8 § 2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a new 9 subdivision 8 to read as follows: 10 8. The commissioner shall establish guidelines for onsite opioid over- 11 dose response capacity in community centers. 12 § 3. 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. LBD08503-01-3
