Bill Text: NY S02713 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of dispensing an opioid prescription at no cost to the ultimate user of such prescribed opioid.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-06 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S02713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02713-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2713

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 24, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  KENNEDY,  GALLIVAN,  HARCKHAM  --  read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Health

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  public  health  law, in relation to requiring a
          personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of
          dispensing an opioid prescription

          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 personal use pharmaceutical disposal systems.  1.  No
     4  person  in  the state shall dispense an opioid prescription to the ulti-
     5  mate user of such prescribed  opioid  unless  such  person  additionally
     6  provides  to  such  ultimate user a personal use pharmaceutical disposal
     7  system at no cost to such ultimate user.
     8    2. As used in this section:
     9    (a) "Personal use pharmaceutical disposal  system"  means  a  portable
    10  product  designed  for personal use by the ultimate user for the purpose
    11  of allowing the ultimate user of a prescribed opioid to  deactivate  the
    12  prescribed opioid to a non-retrievable condition or state.
    13    (b)  "Ultimate user" means a person who has lawfully obtained, and who
    14  possesses, a prescribed opioid for his or her own use or for the use  of
    15  a member of his or her household.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06902-01-3