New York S 5621: Relates to establishing the crime of feticide

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S05621 Summary:

BILL NOS05621 

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SPONSORASHBY

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Add §3000-g, amd §3053, Pub Health L

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Relates to prehospital emergency medical services for individuals in substance use recovery; requires policies, procedures, and protocols to be developed to identify individuals in substance use recovery and to avoid treatment that could compromise such individuals' recovery.

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BILL NOS05621 

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02/26/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 5621

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 26, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. ASHBY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to prehospital emer-
 gency medical services for individuals in substance use recovery

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

 1 Section 1. Legislative intent. The legislature hereby finds that emer-
 2 gency personnel are trained to look for intoxication, but not trained to
 3 ask a patient if they identify as a person in substance use recovery.
 4 People in recovery work extremely hard to maintain recovery and should
 5 not be placed in a situation where their recovery is compromised. The
 6 legislature finds that emergency personnel need to be trained in how to
 7 communicate the risks of certain medications that could compromise the
 8 person's recovery and what possible alternatives are available.
 9 § 2. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 3000-g
 10 to read as follows:
 11 § 3000-g. Prehospital emergency medical services; substance use recov-
 12 ery. 1. The department, the state council, and the regional council
 13 shall include in their policies, procedures, and protocols for prehospi-
 14 tal emergency medical services and transportation, standards for the
 15 assessment and treatment of patients who identify as a person in
 16 substance use recovery. Such policies, procedures, and protocols shall
 17 include point-of-entry criteria and plans for the triage and transport
 18 of individuals who identify as a person in substance use recovery. At
 19 minimum such policies, procedures, and protocols shall require emergency
 20 medical services and transportation providers to communicate to individ-
 21 uals who identify as a person in substance use recovery the risks of
 22 certain medications that could compromise such individuals' recovery by
 23 offering alternate options for treatment and informing the hospital that
 24 such individual identifies as a person in substance use recovery.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02997-01-5

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 1 2. Beginning upon the effective date of this section, the department,
 2 the state council, and the regional council shall annually review and
 3 update, if appropriate, their policies, procedures, and protocols for
 4 prehospital emergency medical services and transportation to ensure
 5 individuals who identify as a person in substance use recovery are
 6 receiving adequate information prior to treatment.
 7 § 3. Section 3053 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 445
 8 of the laws of 1993, is amended to read as follows:
 9 § 3053. Reporting. 1. Advanced life support first response services
 10 and ambulance services registered or certified pursuant to article thir-
 11 ty of this chapter shall submit detailed individual call reports on a
 12 form to be provided by the department, or may submit data electronically
 13 in a format approved by the department. The state emergency medical
 14 services council, with the approval of the commissioner, may adopt rules
 15 and regulations permitting or requiring ambulance services whose volume
 16 exceeds twenty thousand calls per year to submit call report data elec-
 17 tronically. Such rules shall define the data elements to be submitted,
 18 and may