Bill Text: NY S08820 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes opioid use as a condition permitting the use of medical marihuana.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-31 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE [S08820 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08820-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8820
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 22, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen. AMEDORE -- 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 conditions permit-
          ting the use of medical marihuana
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 7 of
     2  section 3360 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 403 of  the
     3  laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  having one of the following severe debilitating or life-threaten-
     5  ing conditions: cancer, positive status for human immunodeficiency virus
     6  or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, amyotrophic  lateral  sclerosis,
     7  Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, damage to the nervous tissue of
     8  the  spinal  cord  with objective neurological indication of intractable
     9  spasticity,  epilepsy,   inflammatory   bowel   disease,   neuropathies,
    10  Huntington's  disease,  post-traumatic  stress disorder, as a substitute
    11  for opioids for conditions expected to  last  less  than  three  months,
    12  provided  that  the medical record must contain a written treatment plan
    13  that follows generally accepted national  professional  or  governmental
    14  guidelines,  except  that the following of such a written treatment plan
    15  shall not apply in the case of patients who are being treated for cancer
    16  that is not in remission, who are in hospice or other end-of-life  care,
    17  or  whose pain is being treated as part of palliative care practices, or
    18  as added by the commissioner; and
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately; provided that the  amend-
    20  ments  to  title  5-A  of  article  33  of the public health law made by
    21  section one of this act shall not affect the repeal of  such  title  and
    22  shall be deemed repealed therewith.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15956-01-8