Directs the commissioner of health to establish guidelines for onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers; defines "community center".
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4103
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 3, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Alcoholism and Substance
Abuse
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to guidelines for
onsite opioid overdose response capacity in community centers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 3309 of the
2 public health law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read
3 as follows:
4 (vi) "Community center" means a facility owned and operated by a
5 governmental agency or a nonprofit community organization; provided,
6 that the primary purpose of the facility is for recreation, social
7 welfare, community improvement or public assembly.
8 § 2. Section 3309 of the public health law is amended by adding a new
9 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
10 8. The commissioner shall establish guidelines for onsite opioid over-
11 dose response capacity in community centers.
12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08503-01-3
