New York Assembly Bill A05840 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5840 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 24, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse AN ACT to amend the public health law and the mental hygiene law, in relation to dispensing certain individuals with opioid reversal drugs upon discharge The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-u of the public health law, 2 as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 70 of the laws of 2016, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 3. (a) Upon commencement of treatment, admission, or discharge of an 5 individual with a documented substance use disorder or who appears to 6 have or be at risk for a substance use disorder, including discharge 7 from the emergency department, such hospital shall inform the individual 8 of the availability of the substance use disorder treatment services 9 that may be available to them through a substance use disorder services 10 program. 11 (b) Upon discharge of an individual who appears to be at risk for a 12 substance use disorder, such hospital shall dispense at least two doses 13 of opioid reversal drugs. 14 § 2. Section 29.15 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a 15 new subdivision (o) to read as follows: 16 (o) Upon discharge from an inpatient facility operated or licensed by 17 the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services or the office of 18 mental health, a patient who appears to be at risk for a substance use 19 disorder shall be dispensed at least two doses of opioid reversal drugs. 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 21 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07416-01-5