Bill Text: NY A08933 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the department of health, in cooperation with various state offices and agencies to study, evaluate, and make recommendations concerning the prescribing and treatment history of persons in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A08933 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08933-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8933

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 2, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to direct the department of health, in cooperation  with  various
          state  offices  and  agencies to study, evaluate, and make recommenda-
          tions concerning the prescribing and treatment history of  persons  in
          this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses

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

     1    Section 1. Study of the prescribing and treatment history  of  persons
     2  in this state who suffered fatal and nonfatal opiate overdoses. 1. Defi-
     3  nitions. For the purposes of this section:
     4    a.  "Multiple  provider  episodes"  shall mean a single patient having
     5  access to opiate prescriptions from more than one provider.
     6    b. "Poly-substance access" shall mean a  patient  having  simultaneous
     7  prescriptions  for  an  opiate and a benzodiazepine or for an opiate and
     8  another drug which may enhance the effects or the risks of drug abuse or
     9  overdose.
    10    c. "Provider" shall include  any  individual  practicing  medicine  as
    11  defined in section 6521 of the education law.
    12    2. Study. The department of health, in cooperation with the department
    13  of  corrections  and  community  supervision,  the  office  of addiction
    14  services and supports, and the office of mental health, shall conduct  a
    15  study  of the prescribing and treatment history, including court-ordered
    16  treatment or treatment within the criminal justice system, of persons in
    17  this state who suffered fatal or nonfatal opiate overdoses beginning  in
    18  the calendar years 2011 to 2019 and yearly thereafter. Such study shall,
    19  with regard to such persons, conduct or provide for an examination of:
    20    a. instances of multiple provider episodes;
    21    b. instances of poly-substance access;
    22    c.  the  overall opiate prescription history of individuals, including
    23  whether such individuals had access to legal  prescriptions  for  opiate
    24  drugs at the time of their overdoses;
    25    d.  whether individuals had previously undergone voluntary or involun-
    26  tary treatment for substance addiction or behavioral health;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    e. whether individuals had attempted to enter but were  denied  access
     2  to treatment for substance addiction or behavioral health;
     3    f.  whether  individuals  had  received past treatment for a substance
     4  overdose; and
     5    g. whether any individuals had been previously detained or incarcerat-
     6  ed and, if so, whether such individuals had  received  treatment  during
     7  such detention or incarceration.
     8    3.  Report.  No  later  than one year after the effective date of this
     9  act, the department of health, in cooperation  with  the  department  of
    10  corrections  and community supervision, the office of addiction services
    11  and supports, and the office of mental health, shall deliver a report in
    12  an aggregate and de-identified form on  trends  discovered  through  the
    13  study  conducted  pursuant  to  subdivision  two  of this section to the
    14  governor, the temporary president of the senate, and the speaker of  the
    15  assembly.  The reports for the calendar year 2019 shall be completed and
    16  delivered to the governor, the temporary president of the senate and the
    17  speaker of the assembly by December 31, 2020. For future calendar years,
    18  the report shall be completed and delivered to such persons on or before
    19  December 31 of the following year.
    20    4.  Powers. All other departments or agencies of the state or subdivi-
    21  sions thereof, and local  governments  shall,  at  the  request  of  the
    22  commissioner  of  health,  the commissioner of corrections and community
    23  supervision, the commissioner of the office of  addiction  services  and
    24  supports,  or the commissioner of the office of mental health, or at the
    25  request of the designee of any  such  commissioner,  provide  expertise,
    26  assistance,  and/or  data that is relevant or material to the completion
    27  of the study directed to be completed by subdivision two of this section
    28  and the report directed to be completed by  subdivision  three  of  this
    29  section.
    30    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.