New York A 661: Relates to gambling and the creation of a self-exclusion request for removal form

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A00661 Summary:

BILL NOA00661 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01987

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SPONSORSteck

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COSPNSROtis, Reyes

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2803-u, Pub Health L

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Requires hospitals to provide medically supervised detoxification services to all patients requiring such services; provides, that if the hospital is at ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to access such medically supervised detoxification services without any increased risk to the health or life of the patient.

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BILL NOA00661 

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01/08/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 661

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. STECK, OTIS, REYES -- read once and referred to
 the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring hospi-
 tals to provide medically supervised detoxification services

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 2 of section 2803-u
 2 of the public health law, as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 70
 3 of the laws of 2016, are amended and a new paragraph (d) is added to
 4 read as follows:
 5 (b) establish and implement training, within existing or in addition
 6 to current training programs, for all individuals licensed or certified
 7 pursuant to title eight of the education law who provide direct patient
 8 care regarding the policies and procedures established pursuant to this
 9 section; [and]
 10 (c) except where an individual has come into the hospital under
 11 section 22.09 of the mental hygiene law, if the hospital does not
 12 directly provide substance use disorder services, then it shall refer
 13 individuals in need of substance use disorder services to and coordinate
 14 with substance use disorder services programs that provide behavioral
 15 health services, as defined in section 1.03 of the mental hygiene
 16 law[.]; and
 17 (d) provide medically supervised detoxification services to all
 18 patients requiring such services; provided, that if the hospital is at
 19 ninety percent capacity or greater, such hospital shall connect the
 20 patient to an alternative facility within such patient's network to
 21 access such medically supervised detoxification services without any
 22 increased risk to the health or life of the patient.
 23 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 24 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02421-01-5

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