STATE OF NEW YORK
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8570
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 16, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. WOZNIAK -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law,in relation to requiring forty-
eight hour admittance at a hospital for persons treated for overdose
of a controlled substance
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 2805-y to read as follows:
3 § 2805-y. Mandatory hospital admittance period for overdose treatment.
4 Any person treated in a hospital, as defined by subdivision one of
5 section twenty-eight hundred one of this article, for having overdosed
6 on a controlled substance, as defined by subdivision five of section
7 thirty-three hundred two of this chapter, shall be required to be admit-
8 ted to such facility for at least a forty-eight hour period prior to
9 release. A health care practitioner shall inform such person, prior to
10 their release, of the risks of overdose and strategies to avoid future
11 instances of overdose.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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