New York S 55: Enacts the overdose prevention and recovery act

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S00055 Summary:

BILL NOS00055 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00069

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SPONSORFERNANDEZ

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COSPNSRADDABBO, COMRIE, HARCKHAM, JACKSON, MATTERA, RHOADS, SCARCELLA-SPANTON

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §97-aaaaa, St Fin L; amd Part NN §5, Chap 57 of 2018

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Enacts the overdose prevention and recovery act; directs that at least twenty percent of funds from the opioid stewardship fund shall be invested in recovery services and supports; requires an annual report to the legislature regarding funds distributed from the opioid stewardship fund; makes the opioid stewardship fund permanent.

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BILL NOS00055 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO FINANCE

03/04/20251ST REPORT CAL.464

03/05/20252ND REPORT CAL.

03/10/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/06/2025PASSED SENATE

06/06/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/06/2025referred to health

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO FINANCE

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 55

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. FERNANDEZ, HARCKHAM -- read twice and ordered print-
 ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

 AN ACT to amend the state finance law, in relation to the opioid
 stewardship fund; and to amend part NN of chapter 57 of the laws of
 2018, amending the public health law and the state finance law relat-
 ing to enacting the opioid stewardship act, in relation to the effec-
 tiveness thereof

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "overdose prevention and recovery act".
 3 § 2. Subdivisions 4 and 5 of section 97-aaaaa of the state finance
 4 law, as added by section 3 of part NN of chapter 57 of the laws of 2018,
 5 are amended and a new subdivision 8 is added to read as follows:
 6 4. Moneys of the opioid stewardship fund, when allocated, shall be
 7 available, subject to the approval of the director of the budget, to
 8 support programs operated by the New York state office of [alcoholism]
 9 addiction services and [substance abuse services] supports or the
 10 department of health or agencies certified, authorized, approved or
 11 otherwise funded by the New York state office of [alcoholism] addiction
 12 services and [substance abuse services] supports or the department of
 13 health to provide opioid treatment, recovery and prevention and educa-
 14 tion services; and to provide support for the prescription monitoring
 15 program registry as established pursuant to section thirty-three hundred
 16 forty-three-a of the public health law, provided, however, that at least
 17 twenty percent of funds shall be invested in recovery services and
 18 supports and at least twenty percent of funds shall be allocated to the
 19 department of health to be used for harm reduction services including
 20 but not limited to syringe service programs and drug user health hubs.
 21 Provided, further, that moneys of the fund shall be used to supplement
 22 and not supplant or replace any other funds, including federal or state
 23 funding, which would otherwise have been expended for substance use
 24 disorder prevention, treatment, recovery or harm reduction services or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00369-01-5

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 1 programs, and general operation funds or baseline funding shall not be
 2 reduced due to monies expended from the fund.
 3 5. At the request of the budget director, the state comptroller shall
 4 transfer moneys to support the costs of opioid treatment, recovery,
 5 prevention, education services, harm reduction services, and other
 6 related programs, from the opioid stewardship fund to any other fund of
 7 the state to support this purpose.
 8 8. (a) On or before November first of each year, beginning one year
 9 after the effective date of this subdivision, the commissioner of the
 10 office of addiction services and suppo