Requires a personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of dispensing an opioid prescription at no cost to the ultimate user of such prescribed opioid.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2713
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 24, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. KENNEDY, GALLIVAN, HARCKHAM -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring a
personal use pharmaceutical disposal system be provided at the time of
dispensing an opioid prescription
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
2 3309-c to read as follows:
3 § 3309-c. Opioid personal use pharmaceutical disposal systems. 1. No
4 person in the state shall dispense an opioid prescription to the ulti-
5 mate user of such prescribed opioid unless such person additionally
6 provides to such ultimate user a personal use pharmaceutical disposal
7 system at no cost to such ultimate user.
8 2. As used in this section:
9 (a) "Personal use pharmaceutical disposal system" means a portable
10 product designed for personal use by the ultimate user for the purpose
11 of allowing the ultimate user of a prescribed opioid to deactivate the
12 prescribed opioid to a non-retrievable condition or state.
13 (b) "Ultimate user" means a person who has lawfully obtained, and who
14 possesses, a prescribed opioid for his or her own use or for the use of
15 a member of his or her household.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
17 it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06902-01-3
