Allows a practitioner in a hospital without a full-time pharmacy to dispense to a patient in a hospital emergency room for use off the premises a 24 hour supply of certain drugs, unless the federal drug enforcement administration has authorized a longer time period for the purpose of initiating maintenance treatment, detoxification treatment, or both.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7177--B
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to
the Committee on Health in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
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 the supply of
controlled substances a practitioner in a hospital without a full-time
pharmacy may dispense to a patient in a hospital emergency room for
use off the 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 692 of the laws of 1976, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. An institutional dispenser may dispense controlled substances for
5 use off its premises only pursuant to a prescription, prepared and filed
6 in conformity with this title, provided, however, that, in an emergency
7 situation as defined by rule or regulation of the department, a practi-
8 tioner in a hospital without a full-time pharmacy may dispense
9 controlled substances to a patient in a hospital emergency room for use
10 off the premises of the institutional dispenser for a period not to
11 exceed twenty-four hours, unless the federal drug enforcement adminis-
12 tration has authorized a longer time period for the purpose of initiat-
13 ing maintenance treatment, detoxification treatment, or both.
14 § 2. 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.
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