STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2713 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 24, 2023 ___________ 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