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A 1997: Requires the department of health analysis of data in the prescription monitoring program registry.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 9, 2026

What A 1997 does, verified January 9, 2026

The state of New York is introducing a bill to amend the Public Health Law. The key points of the bill are as follows: The state's Department of Health will periodically analyze data from the prescription monitoring program registry to identify potential violations of law or professional standards, including the improper prescribing of controlled substances. The department will provide relevant information to appropriate entities as permitted under the law. The department will keep a record of the information provided, including details about the specific information shared, the agency to which it was provided, and the person who received it. The bill will take effect immediately.

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Last action: referred to health (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to health
Jan. 14, 2025referred to health
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 14, 2025 · 276 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1997 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 14, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to department analy- sis of the prescription monitoring program registry The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 3343-a of the public health law, 2 as added by section 2 of part A of chapter 447 of the laws of 2012, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 7. Department analysis of data. The department shall periodically 5 analyze data contained in the prescription monitoring program registry 6 to identify information that indicates that a violation of law or breach 7 of professional standards may have occurred, including the inappropriate 8 prescribing of controlled substances and, as warranted, provide any 9 relevant information to appropriate entities as permitted under section 10 thirty-three hundred seventy-one of this article. The department shall 11 keep a record of the information provided, including, but not limited 12 to, the specific information provided and the agency to which such 13 information was provided, including the name and title of the person to 14 whom such information was provided and an attestation from such person 15 that [he or she] such person has authority to receive such information. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05437-01-5 
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