Bill Text: NY S05868 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that every initial opioid analgesic prescription per year, which is equal to or greater than fifty morphine milligram equivalents, shall be accompanied with a prescription for an opioid antagonist.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-25 - PRINT NUMBER 5868A [S05868 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05868-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         5868--A
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       May 4, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  RANZENHOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted
          to the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the public health law, in relation to prescribing an
          opioid antagonist with a patient's first opioid analgesic prescription
          in a given year
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 3302 of the public health law is amended by adding
     2  two new subdivisions 44 and 45 to read as follows:
     3    44. "Opioid analgesics" means the medicines buprenophine, butorphanol,
     4  codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, levorphanol, meperidine, methadone,
     5  morphine, nalbuphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone, pentazocine,  propoxyphene
     6  as well as their brand names, isomers and combinations.
     7    45. "Opioid antagonist" means an FDA-approved drug that, when adminis-
     8  tered,  negates  or  neutralizes in whole or in part the pharmacological
     9  effects of an opioid in the body. The opioid antagonist  is  limited  to
    10  naloxone  or  other  medications  approved  by  the  department for this
    11  purpose.
    12    § 2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a  new
    13  subdivision 7 to read as follows:
    14    7.  Every  initial  opioid  analgesic  prescription per year, which is
    15  equal to or greater than fifty morphine milligram equivalents, shall  be
    16  accompanied with a prescription for an opioid antagonist.
    17    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law; provided, however, that  effective  immediately,  the
    19  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    20  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    21  to be made and completed by the commissioner of health on or before such
    22  effective date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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