A 4538: Requires health care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an opioid and discuss the dangers of opioid addiction with such patient in a manner consistent with regulations promulgated by the commissioner of health.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4538 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY February 4, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FALL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring health care professionals to prescribe opioid antagonists when prescribing an opioid The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 3 of 2 section 3309 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 42 of the 3 laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 4 (i) A health care professional [may] shall prescribe [by] a patient- 5 specific or non-patient-specific [prescription] opioid antagonist when 6 prescribing an opioid, and may also, dispense or distribute, directly or 7 indirectly, an opioid antagonist to an opioid antagonist recipient. Such 8 health care professional shall discuss the dangers of opioid addiction 9 with such patient in a manner consistent with regulations promulgated by 10 the commissioner. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 13 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 14 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 15 on or before such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08692-01-5