STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          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.
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