Bill Text: NY S03347 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3347 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires facilities that provide treatment for substance use disorders to have at least one practitioner qualified to administer or prescribe buprenorphine to individuals in their care with substance use disorders related to opioids.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS [S03347 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03347-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3347

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance
          Abuse

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  availability
          of buprenorphine in opioid treatment programs

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

     1    Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a  new  section
     2  32.12 to read as follows:
     3  § 32.12 Availability of buprenorphine.
     4    Every   facility  licensed  or  authorized  to  provide  services  for
     5  substance use disorders related to  opioids  that  employs  a  qualified
     6  practitioner,  as  determined  by federal law, shall ensure at least one
     7  practitioner in the facility has received an appropriate  waiver  and/or
     8  has completed required training to administer or prescribe buprenorphine
     9  to  individuals  in  their care with a substance use disorder where such
    10  drug is determined appropriate for their treatment.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    12  it shall have become a law.  Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
    13  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    14  tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be  made  and
    15  completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00691-01-3