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Int 1540-2019

Requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to stock opioid antagonists in library buildings and train library staff.

IntroductionFiledCommittee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addictionintroduced 2019-04-18

Filed — closed without being enacted.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2019-04-18Passed: 2021-12-31

Summary

This bill would mandate that the department of health and mental hygiene stock opioid antagonists in all library buildings and provide reversal training to all library staff.

Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and AddictionDepartment of Health and Mental Hygiene (issues of mental health, developmental disability and addiction services) and Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities.

How it compares

48% of similar bills passed

24 passed · 26 died

This bill: 988 days in committee

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Sponsors (4)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2019-04-18 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2019-04-18 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2021-12-31 · City Council

Heard at (1)

City Council · 2019-04-18 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (5)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 19 to title 17 to read as follows: Chapter 19. Opioid Overdose Prevention � 17-1900 a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: Opioid antagonist. The term "opioid antagonist" means naloxone or other medication approved by the federal food and drug administration and the New York state department of health that, when administered, negates or neutralizes in whole or in part the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the human body. b. The department shall stock opioid antagonists in all library buildings pursuant to section 922 of the state education law. c. The department shall offer overdose prevention and reversal training to all library staff pursuant to section 922 of the state education law. Such training shall include: 1. How to recognize an opioid overdose; and 2. How to properly administer common opioid antagonists to reverse an opioid overdose. � 2. This local law takes effect 60 days after it becomes law. BM LS # 5920 5/31/2018 3:30 p.m. 1 2 2 2