Bill Text: NY S06571 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires reporting of alcohol overdose data in addition to existing opioid overdose reporting requirements; requires the commissioner of health to submit an annual statewide report and provide updated data to counties every three months; makes overdose reporting requirements permanent.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A6166A [S06571 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06571-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6571

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 6, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HINCHEY -- 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 reporting of alco-
          hol overdose data; and to amend chapter 66 of the laws of 2016, amend-
          ing  the  public  health law, relating to reporting of opioid overdose
          data, in relation to making such provisions permanent

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

     1    Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 3309 of the public health law, as
     2  amended by chapter 66 of the  laws  of  2016,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    5.  The  commissioner  shall  publish findings on statewide opioid and
     5  alcohol overdose data that reviews overdose death rates and other infor-
     6  mation to ascertain changes in the cause and rates of opioid and alcohol
     7  overdoses, including fatal opioid  and  alcohol  overdoses.  The  report
     8  shall  be  submitted annually, on or before October first, to the gover-
     9  nor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the  assembly
    10  and  the  chairs of the senate and assembly health committees, and shall
    11  be made public on the department's internet website.  The  report  shall
    12  include, at a minimum, the following information on a county basis:
    13    (a) information on opioid and alcohol overdoses and opioid and alcohol
    14  overdose  deaths,  including  age,  gender,  ethnicity,  and  geographic
    15  location;
    16    (b) data on emergency room utilization for the treatment of opioid and
    17  alcohol overdose;
    18    (c) data on utilization of pre-hospital services;
    19    (d) data on the dispensing and utilization of opioid antagonists; and
    20    (e) any other information necessary to ascertain the  success  of  the
    21  program,  areas  of  the  state which are experiencing particularly high
    22  rates of  overdoses,  ways  to  determine  if  services,  resources  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  responses  in particular areas of the state are having a positive impact
     2  on reducing overdoses, and ways to further reduce overdoses.
     3    §  2.  Subdivision  6  of  section  3309  of the public health law, as
     4  amended by section 1 of part B of chapter 70 of the  laws  of  2016,  is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    6.  The  commissioner  shall  provide the current information and data
     7  specified by each type of drug included in the report required by subdi-
     8  vision five of this section to each  county  every  three  months.  Such
     9  information and data shall be posted on the office of addiction services
    10  and supports' website and may be utilized by a county or any combination
    11  thereof as it works to address the opioid epidemic.
    12    §  3. Paragraphs (c) and (d) of subdivision 3-a of section 3309 of the
    13  public health law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws  of  2019,  are
    14  amended to read as follows:
    15    (c)  the  number for the toll free office of [alcoholism and substance
    16  abuse] addiction services and supports' HOPE line;
    17    (d) how to access  the  office  of  [alcoholism  and  substance  abuse
    18  services'] addiction services and supports' website;
    19    §  4. Section 2 of chapter 66 of the laws of 2016, amending the public
    20  health law, relating to reporting of opioid overdose data, as amended by
    21  section 12 of part S of chapter 57 of the laws of 2021,  is  amended  to
    22  read as follows:
    23    §  2.  This act shall take effect immediately[, provided that subdivi-
    24  sion 6 of section 3309 of the public health law, as added by section one
    25  of this act, shall expire and be deemed repealed March 31, 2026].
    26    § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.