A8948 • 2025

Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: Phil Steck
Last action: 2026-05-18
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder

Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder.

What This Bill Does

Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder.

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Bill History

2026-05-18 Assembly
REPORTED REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS
2026-05-13 Assembly
AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE
2026-05-13 Assembly
PRINT NUMBER 8948A
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE
2025-07-16 Assembly
REFERRED TO ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG ABUSE

Official Summary Text

Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder
Relates to the distribution of educational materials regarding the misuse of and addiction to prescription drugs in counties with the most prevalent prescription substance use disorder.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          8948

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                      July 16, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse

        AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to the  distribution
          in  counties  with  the  most  prevalent  prescription opioid abuse of
          educational  materials  regarding  the  misuse  of  and  addiction  to
          prescription drugs

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision (j) of section 19.09 of the mental hygiene  law
     2  is amended by adding a new paragraph 4 to read as follows:
     3    (4) UTILIZING DATA THAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE OFFICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
     4  LIMITED TO, INFORMATION OBTAINED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION FOUR OF SECTION
     5  THIRTY-THREE  HUNDRED  NINE-A OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, THE COMMISSIONER
     6  SHALL IDENTIFY THE COUNTIES IN NEW YORK STATE WHERE PRESCRIPTION  OPIOID
     7  ABUSE  IS  MOST PREVALENT. PHARMACISTS LICENSED BY THE STATE TO DISPENSE
     8  PRESCRIPTION DRUGS MAY BE NOTIFIED AT THE DISCRETION OF THE COMMISSIONER
     9  IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, ABOUT THE PREVALENCE  OF
    10  OPIOID  ABUSE  IN  THE  COUNTY IN WHICH SUCH PHARMACISTS ARE LOCATED AND
    11  ENCOURAGE THE FACILITIES  WHERE  PRESCRIPTION  DRUGS  ARE  DISPENSED  TO
    12  DISTRIBUTE MATERIALS CREATED OR UTILIZED PURSUANT TO THIS SUBDIVISION.
    13    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10508-01-5