New York Assembly Bill A00873 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 873 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 11, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to department analy- sis of the prescription monitoring program registry The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3343-a of the public health law, 2 as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 447 of the laws of 2012, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 7. Department analysis of data. The department shall periodically 5 analyze data contained in the prescription monitoring program registry 6 to identify information that indicates that a violation of law or breach 7 of professional standards may have occurred, including the inappropriate 8 prescribing of controlled substances and, as warranted, provide any 9 relevant information to appropriate entities as permitted under section 10 thirty-three hundred seventy-one of this article. The department shall 11 keep a record of the information provided, including, but not limited 12 to, the specific information provided and the agency to which such 13 information was provided, including the name and title of the person to 14 whom such information was provided and an attestation from such person 15 that he or she has authority to receive such information. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01245-01-3