Bill Text: NY S00101 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that where a health care professional or professionals require the completion of an allergy checklist or form by the patient, prior to receiving care by such professional or professionals, the checklist or form shall also inquire about the opioid history of such patient.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS [S00101 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00101-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           101

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism  and  Substance
          Use Disorders

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to requesting the
          opioid history of certain persons

          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  3309-c to read as follows:
     3    § 3309-c. Opioid prevention; request opioid history.   Notwithstanding
     4  any  inconsistent  provision of law to the contrary, where a health care
     5  professional or professionals  require  the  completion  of  an  allergy
     6  checklist  or  form  by  the  patient,  prior  to receiving care by such
     7  professional or professionals, the checklist or form shall also  inquire
     8  about  the  opioid history of such patient. Such opioid history provided
     9  by the patient, if any, is intended to inform the  health  care  profes-
    10  sional  or  professionals  diagnostic  and treatment options in order to
    11  prevent any opioid relapse by such  patient.    The  provision  of  this
    12  section  shall  not  supplant  the  requirements set forth under section
    13  thirty-three hundred forty-three-a of this article related to  the  duty
    14  to consult the prescription monitoring program registry.
    15    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    16  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    17  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    18  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    19  on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00730-01-5