Assembly Bill A10110

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Directs the commissioner of health to establish an opioid treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2013-A10110 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2948
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §3309-b, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S7326

2013-A10110 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of health to establish an opioid addiction treatment and hospital diversion demonstration program.

2013-A10110 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10110

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 13, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. McDonald) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN  ACT  to  amend the public health law, in relation to establishing an
  opioid  addiction  treatment  and  hospital  diversion   demonstration
  program

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
3309-b to read as follows:
  S  3309-B.  OPIOID  ADDICTION  TREATMENT AND HOSPITAL DIVERSION DEMON-
STRATION PROGRAM. 1. THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH  THE  OFFICE
OF  ALCOHOLISM  AND  SUBSTANCE ABUSE SERVICES, SHALL, WITHIN THE AMOUNTS
APPROPRIATED THEREFOR,  ESTABLISH  AN  OPIOID  ADDICTION  TREATMENT  AND
HOSPITAL  DIVERSION  DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE A
NEW MODEL OF DETOXIFICATION AND TRANSITIONAL  SERVICES  FOR  INDIVIDUALS
SEEKING  TO  RECOVER FROM OPIOID ADDICTION, THEREBY REDUCING RELIANCE ON
EMERGENCY ROOM SERVICES. THE PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE FOR THE TREATMENT  OF
PRESCRIPTION  PAIN  MEDICATION ADDICTION ON AN OUTPATIENT OR NON-MEDICAL
RESIDENTIAL SHORT-TERM STAY BASIS. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL  ESTABLISH  UP
TO  SIX  DEMONSTRATIONS  THROUGHOUT  THE  STATE, AND AT MINIMUM A DEMON-
STRATION SHALL BE ESTABLISHED IN EACH OF THE  FOLLOWING  AREAS:  WESTERN
NEW YORK, CENTRAL NEW YORK, STATEN ISLAND, BROOKLYN AND LONG ISLAND.
  2.  NOT LATER THAN TWO YEARS AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION,
THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE THE GOVERNOR, THE TEMPORARY PRESIDENT  OF
THE  SENATE, THE SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY, THE CHAIR OF THE SENATE STAND-
ING COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND THE CHAIR OF THE ASSEMBLY  HEALTH  COMMITTEE
WITH  A WRITTEN EVALUATION OF THE DEMONSTRATION PROGRAM. SUCH EVALUATION
SHALL ADDRESS THE OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS TREATMENT  MODEL  AS  IT
RELATES  TO  PATIENTS,  THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITY, HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS
AND HEALTH CARE PAYORS, AND SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE  LIMITED  TO,  THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF THE PROGRAM IN PROVIDING ACCESS TO SERVICES, THE IMPACT
OF  THESE SERVICES, THE ASSOCIATED COSTS SAVINGS, AND WHETHER THE EXPAN-
SION OF THIS OR SIMILAR MODELS ARE RECOMMENDED.
  S 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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