Includes pain management medications that the decedent was prescribed, such as gabapentin, on a death certificate where a death is caused by an opioid overdose.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9574
IN ASSEMBLY
January 24, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to including pain
management medications on a death certificate where a death is caused
by an opioid overdose
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 4 of section 4141 of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 443 of the laws of 2019, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (d) Where a death is caused by an opioid overdose, such information
5 shall be indicated on the certificate, including, if known to the person
6 completing the death certificate, the specific opioid that caused the
7 death of the decedent and any other pain management medications, includ-
8 ing but not limited to gabapentin, that the decedent was prescribed,
9 along with any other related information as the commissioner may
10 require.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14287-01-9
