Authorizes practitioners in institutional dispensers to dispense controlled substances as emergency treatment for use off the premises of the institutional dispenser.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3416--B
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing prac-
titioners in institutional dispensers to dispense controlled
substances as emergency treatment for use off 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 466 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. [An] A practitioner in any institutional dispenser may dispense
5 controlled substances [for use off its premises only pursuant to a
6 prescription, prepared and filed in conformity with this title,
7 provided, however, that,] as emergency treatment in an emergency situ-
8 ation as defined by rule or regulation of the department[, a practition-
9 er in a hospital without a full-time pharmacy may dispense controlled
10 substances to a patient in a hospital emergency room] for use off the
11 premises of the institutional dispenser [for a period not to exceed
12 twenty-four hours, unless] as authorized by the federal drug enforcement
13 administration [has authorized a longer time period] for the purpose of
14 initiating maintenance treatment, detoxification treatment, or both.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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