New York S 8569: Relates to allowing for unlicensed individuals to collect throat or nasopharyngeal swab specimens and to perform certain nursing tasks during a state of disaster emergency

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S08569 Summary:

BILL NOS08569 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05840

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SPONSORSANDERS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §2803-u, Pub Health L; amd §29.15, Ment Hyg L

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Requires inpatient facilities to dispense at-risk individuals with opioid reversal drugs upon discharge.

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BILL NOS08569 

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11/07/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8569

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 November 7, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the mental hygiene law, in
 relation to dispensing certain individuals with opioid reversal drugs
 upon discharge

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 2803-u of the public health law,
 2 as added by section 1 of part C of chapter 70 of the laws of 2016, is
 3 amended to read as follows:
 4 3. (a) Upon commencement of treatment, admission, or discharge of an
 5 individual with a documented substance use disorder or who appears to
 6 have or be at risk for a substance use disorder, including discharge
 7 from the emergency department, such hospital shall inform the individual
 8 of the availability of the substance use disorder treatment services
 9 that may be available to them through a substance use disorder services
 10 program.
 11 (b) Upon discharge of an individual who appears to be at risk for a
 12 substance use disorder, such hospital shall dispense at least two doses
 13 of opioid reversal drugs.
 14 § 2. Section 29.15 of the mental hygiene law is amended by adding a
 15 new subdivision (o) to read as follows:
 16 (o) Upon discharge from an inpatient facility operated or licensed by
 17 the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services or the office of
 18 mental health, a patient who appears to be at risk for a substance use
 19 disorder shall be dispensed at least two doses of opioid reversal drugs.
 20 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 21 it shall have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07416-01-5

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