STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5984--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 28, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to increasing the supply of controlled substances a practitioner in a hospital without a full-time pharmacy may dispense to a patient in a hospital emergency room for use off the premises The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3342 of the public health law, as 2 amended by chapter 692 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. An institutional dispenser may dispense controlled substances, as 5 such term is defined pursuant to subdivision four of section thirty- 6 three hundred two of this article, for use off its premises only pursu- 7 ant to a prescription, prepared and filed in conformity with this title, 8 provided, however, that, in an emergency situation as defined by rule or 9 regulation of the department, a practitioner in a hospital without a 10 full-time pharmacy may dispense controlled substances to a patient in a 11 hospital emergency room for use off the premises of the institutional 12 dispenser for a period not to exceed [twenty-four] seventy-two hours, 13 unless the federal drug enforcement administration has authorized a 14 longer time period for the purpose of initiating maintenance treatment, 15 detoxification treatment, or both. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09730-03-4