New York Assembly Bill A01133 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1133 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD, FRIEND, JONES, LUPARDO, WALLACE, SEAWRIGHT, SANTABARBARA, STECK, FAHY, BLANKENBUSH, MIKULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to limiting the initial prescription of a controlled substance for the alleviation of acute pain to a seven-day supply for users twenty years of age or older and to a three-day supply for users nineteen years of age or younger The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 5 of section 3331 of the 2 public health law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 71 of the 3 laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows: 4 (b) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (a) of this subdivi- 5 sion, a practitioner, within the scope of his or her professional opin- 6 ion or discretion, may not prescribe more than a seven-day supply of any 7 schedule II, III, or IV opioid to an ultimate user who is twenty years 8 of age or older, or more than a three-day supply of any schedule II, 9 III, or IV opioid to an ultimate user who is nineteen years of age or 10 younger upon the initial consultation or treatment of such user for 11 acute pain. Upon any subsequent consultations for the same pain, the 12 practitioner may issue, in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subdi- 13 vision, any appropriate renewal, refill, or new prescription for the 14 opioid or any other drug. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02569-01-3