Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8948--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
July 16, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse -- recommitted to the Committee on Alco-
holism and Drug Abuse 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 mental hygiene law, in relation to the distribution
in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disor-
der of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to
prescription drugs
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision (j) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene law
2 is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
3 (4) Utilizing data that is available to the office, the commissioner
4 shall identify the counties in New York state where prescription
5 substance use disorder is most prevalent. Pharmacists licensed by the
6 state to dispense prescription drugs may be notified at the discretion
7 of the commissioner in collaboration with the department of health,
8 about the prevalence of substance use disorder in the county in which
9 such pharmacists are located and may distribute materials created pursu-
10 ant to this subdivision.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10508-02-6
