Int 0855-2024
Offering fentanyl test strips at syringe exchange programs.
IntroductionFiledCommittee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addictionintroduced 2024-04-18
Filed — closed without being enacted.
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Agenda: 2024-04-18Passed: 2025-12-31
Summary
This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to provide fentanyl test strips and provide training on how to use them at syringe exchange programs, and to provide test strips to attendees of in-person and virtual fentanyl test strip trainings. It would also require DOHMH to provide training to staff at syringe exchange programs on how to use the fentanyl test strips.
Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction — Department 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
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22 passed · 28 died
This bill: 621 days in committee
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Sponsors (6)
Lifecycle
IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2024-04-18 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2024-04-18 · City Council
ClosedFiled (End of Session)
2025-12-31 · City Council
Heard at (1)
City Council · 2024-04-18 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Attachments (5)
- Summary of Int. No. 855
- Int. No. 855
- April 18, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda
- Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-18-24
- Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 18, 2024
Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Section 17-180.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 128 for the year 2018, is amended by adding a new definition of "fentanyl test strip" in alphabetical order to read as follows:
Fentanyl test strip. The term "fentanyl test strip" means a drug testing technology that can detect the presence of fentanyl in drug samples prior to use.
� 2. Subdivision b of section 17-180.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 128 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:
b. For as long as the department determines there is an urgent public health need, the department shall offer overdose prevention, fentanyl test strips, and reversal training to the general public. 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[.]; and
3. How to properly use fentanyl test strips.
� 3. Subdivision d of section 17-180.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 128 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:
d. For as long as the department determines there is an urgent public health need, the department shall provide opioid antagonists and fentanyl test strips to all syringe exchange programs operating within the city and shall provide fentanyl test strips to attendees of fentanyl test strip trainings.
� 4. Subdivision e of section 17-180.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 128 for the year 2018, is amended to read as follows:
e. The department shall require that the staff at all syringe exchange programs operating in the city receive overdose prevention and reversal training. Such training shall teach staff:
1. How to recognize an opioid overdose; [and]
2. How to properly administer common opioid antagonists to reverse an opioid overdose[.]; and
3. How to properly use a fentanyl test strip.
� 5. This local law takes effect 30 days after it becomes law.
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