Provides that when informational cards or sheets about opioid antagonists are distributed, such information shall include information about fentanyl strips and their uses.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4393
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 the distribution
of information about fentanyl test strips and their uses
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 3-a of section 3309 of
2 the public health law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2019, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 Any distribution of opioid antagonists through this program shall
5 include an informational card or sheet, and fentanyl test strips. The
6 informational card or sheet shall include, at a minimum, information on:
7 § 2. Paragraphs (e) and (f) of subdivision 3-a of section 3309 of the
8 public health law, as amended by chapter 504 of the laws of 2019, are
9 amended and a new paragraph (g) is added to read as follows:
10 (e) the application of good samaritan protections provided in section
11 three thousand-a of this chapter; [and]
12 (f) any other information deemed relevant by the commissioner[.]; and
13 (g) information about fentanyl test strips and their uses.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07343-02-3
