STATE OF NEW YORK
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5066
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 22, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. CLEARE -- 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 training for pres-
cribers of certain pain medications
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 3 of section 3309-a of the
2 public health law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 71 of the
3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
4 (c) The commissioner, in consultation with the department of education
5 and the office of [alcoholism and substance abuse] addiction services
6 and supports, shall establish standards and review and approve course
7 work or training in pain management, palliative care, and addiction and
8 update such standards and approvals as necessary according to best prac-
9 tices for providing patient centered care with the consideration of
10 social determinants of health and co-occuring disorders and shall
11 publish information related to such standards, course work or training
12 on the department's website.
13 § 2. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 3 of section 3309-a of the public
14 health law, as added by section 1 of part A of chapter 71 of the laws of
15 2016, is amended to read as follows:
16 (f) Course work or training shall include, but not be limited to:
17 state and federal requirements for prescribing controlled substances;
18 pain management; appropriate prescribing; managing acute pain; pallia-
19 tive medicine; prevention, screening and signs of [addiction] substance
20 use disorder; responses to abuse and addiction; and end of life care.
21 For each licensed person due to re-register pursuant to this subdivision
22 after July first, two thousand twenty-four, such course work or training
23 shall also include techniques that will reduce the likelihood of over-
24 dose and other harms related to the use of controlled substances and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 medications used for the treatment of addiction, including information
2 about becoming a buprenorphine prescriber.
3 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
4 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend-
5 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
6 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
7 completed by the department of health in consultation with the state
8 education department and the office of addiction services and supports
9 on or before such effective date.