Bill Text: NY S05498 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring hospitals and practitioners to report to the commissioner of health persons who have died as a result of an opioid overdose.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S05498 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05498-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5498 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 3, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 reporting require- ments for deaths resulting from opioid overdoses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 3309 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 42 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. The commissioner is authorized to establish standards for approval 5 of any opioid overdose prevention program, and opioid antagonist 6 prescribing, dispensing, distribution, possession and administration 7 pursuant to this section which may include, but not be limited to, stan- 8 dards for program directors, appropriate clinical oversight, training, 9 and record keeping [and]; provided, however that such standards shall 10 include reporting requirements for deaths resulting from opioid over- 11 doses that are pronounced at a hospital that has been issued an operat- 12 ing certificate by the commissioner. 13 § 2. Section 3372 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 195 14 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows: 15 § 3372. Practitioner patient reporting. 1. It shall be the duty of 16 every attending practitioner and every consulting practitioner to report 17 promptly to the commissioner, or his duly designated agent, the name 18 and, if possible, the address of, and such other data as may be required 19 by the commissioner with respect to, any person under treatment if he 20 finds that such person is an addict or a habitual user of any narcotic 21 drug. Such report shall be kept confidential and may be utilized only 22 for statistical, epidemiological or research purposes, except that those 23 reports which originate in the course of a criminal proceeding other 24 than under section 81.25 of the mental hygiene law shall be subject only EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10888-01-7S. 5498 2 1 to the confidentiality requirements of section thirty-three hundred 2 seventy-one of this article. 3 2. It shall be the duty of every attending practitioner and every 4 consulting practitioner to report promptly to the commissioner, or his 5 duly designated agent, the name and such other data as may be required 6 by the commissioner with respect to any person who died as a result of 7 an opioid overdose. Such report shall be kept confidential and may be 8 utilized only for statistical, epidemiological or research purposes, 9 except that those reports which originate in the course of a criminal 10 proceeding other than under section 81.25 of the mental hygiene law 11 shall be subject only to the confidentiality requirements of section 12 thirty-three hundred seventy-one of this article. 13 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law.
