Bill Text: NY S04103 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish guidelines for onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers; defines "community center".

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-07 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S04103 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04103-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4103

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 3, 2023
                                       ___________

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

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to guidelines for
          onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  3 of section 3309 of the
     2  public health law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi)  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    (vi)  "Community  center"  means  a  facility  owned and operated by a
     5  governmental agency or a  nonprofit  community  organization;  provided,
     6  that  the  primary  purpose  of  the  facility is for recreation, social
     7  welfare, community improvement or public assembly.
     8    § 2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
     9  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    10    8. The commissioner shall establish guidelines for onsite opioid over-
    11  dose response capacity in community centers.
    12    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    13  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08503-01-3
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