Bill Text: NY A08570 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring forty-eight hour admittance at a hospital for persons treated for overdose of a controlled substance.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to health [A08570 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08570-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8570
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
November 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. WOZNIAK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law,in relation to requiring forty-
eight hour admittance at a hospital for persons treated for overdose
of a controlled substance
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 2805-y to read as follows:
3 S 2805-Y. MANDATORY HOSPITAL ADMITTANCE PERIOD FOR OVERDOSE TREATMENT.
4 ANY PERSON TREATED IN A HOSPITAL, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF
5 SECTION TWENTY-EIGHT HUNDRED ONE OF THIS ARTICLE, FOR HAVING OVERDOSED
6 ON A CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION FIVE OF SECTION
7 THIRTY-THREE HUNDRED TWO OF THIS CHAPTER, SHALL BE REQUIRED TO BE ADMIT-
8 TED TO SUCH FACILITY FOR AT LEAST A FORTY-EIGHT HOUR PERIOD PRIOR TO
9 RELEASE. A HEALTH CARE PRACTITIONER SHALL INFORM SUCH PERSON, PRIOR TO
10 THEIR RELEASE, OF THE RISKS OF OVERDOSE AND STRATEGIES TO AVOID FUTURE
11 INSTANCES OF OVERDOSE.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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