STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5004 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 27, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to the distribution of information about fentanyl test strips and their uses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3-a of section 3309 of 2 the public health law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2019, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 Any distribution of opioid antagonists through this program shall 5 include an informational card or sheet, and fentanyl test strips. The 6 informational card or sheet shall include, at a minimum, information on: 7 § 2. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 3-a of section 3309 of the 8 public health law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2019, are 9 amended and a new paragraph (g) is added to read as follows: 10 (e) the application of good samaritan protections provided in section 11 three thousand-a of this chapter; [and] 12 (f) any other information deemed relevant by the commissioner[.]; and 13 (g) information about fentanyl test strips and their uses. 14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 15 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07343-02-3