New York Senate Bill S05671 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5671 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE March 13, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance Use Disorders AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to establishing the fentanyl test strip program The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section 2 19.46 to read as follows: 3 § 19.46 Fentanyl test strip program. 4 1. The commissioner shall establish a program whereby individuals may 5 receive, free of charge, fentanyl test strips to detect the presence of 6 fentanyl. The following facilities may apply to distribute such fentanyl 7 test strips: 8 (a) hospital emergency rooms; 9 (b) addiction treatment facilities; 10 (c) facilities for substance use disorder programs; 11 (d) homeless shelters; 12 (e) urgent care centers; 13 (f) mobile medication units; 14 (g) treatment facilities as defined in subdivision five of section 15 22.09 of this title; and 16 (h) any other setting, as determined by the office, which is routinely 17 accessed by individuals with a substance use disorder. 18 2. Individuals shall not be targeted by law enforcement when they are 19 obtaining the fentanyl test strips at the facilities pursuant to subdi- 20 vision one of this section. 21 3. The commissioner, in cooperation with the commissioner of the 22 department of health, shall develop and conduct a public awareness and 23 educational campaign on the dangers of fentanyl. Such campaign shall 24 detail where fentanyl may be found and the availability of the free EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05428-01-3 
 S. 5671 2 1 fentanyl test strips at the facilities referenced in subdivision one of 2 this section. 3 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 4 it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amend- 5 ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen- 6 tation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and 7 completed on or before such effective date.