Directs the commissioner of corrections and community supervision, in consultation with the commissioner of mental health, to make mental health counseling available to all correction officers and civilian staff in correctional facilities.
Defines epinephrine device as a single-use device or nasal spray device used for the automatic injection or administration of a premeasured dose of epinephrine into the human body for the purpose of emergency treatment of a person appearing to experience anaphylactic symptoms.
Directs the commissioner of social services to authorize the payment of medical assistance funds for rapid whole genome sequencing for persons under twenty-one years of age under certain medical circumstances.
Provides for loan forgiveness for social workers who commit to work in counties with less than two hundred thousand population, or towns which have a population of less than one hundred fifty persons per square mile for the duration of the award.
Senate Bill S 7641 designates where revenue from the existing opioid excise tax in New York State will be allocated. It specifies that all taxes, interest, and penalties collected from this tax, after accounting for any refunds, will be deposited into the New York State Drug Treatment and Public Education Fund. This mechanism ensures that funds generated by the opioid excise tax are directly used to support drug treatment and public education initiatives throughout the state.
Requires every new student at a state university of New York and a city university of New York campus receive training at orientation in the administration of opioid antagonists; requires each campus to provide and maintain onsite in each college-owned or college-operated building opioid antagonists.
This bill waives a $200 biennial registration fee for basic life support first response agencies that provide emergency medical services without transporting patients. It directly affects volunteer ambulance services and similar agencies defined under New York's public health law as "basic life support first response agencies." The key provision amends health law to exempt these agencies from paying the microscopy registration fee required for certain medical testing services. The bill takes effect immediately upon enactment.
Includes guardians of the principal as a person who may commence certain special proceedings; provides that if a hospital can with reasonable efforts ascertain the identity of the parents or guardian of an emancipated minor patient and obtain such parent's or guardian's contact information, the hospital shall notify such persons, and document such notification in the patient's medical record, prior to withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment.
This bill creates a public database listing community programs that support elderly individuals (60+) with dementia or Alzheimer's disease. The database, developed by the office and health department, will include program names, descriptions, contact information, and geographic service areas for successful programs meeting specific criteria. It must be updated annually and made available online. The bill directly affects seniors seeking care and the agencies providing these services.
This bill mandates that all hospitals report every case of poisoning to the regional poison control center. The specific method and timing for these reports will be determined by future regulations issued by the relevant health department. The law includes a delay before it becomes active, taking effect 90 days after it is officially signed into law. This change aims to improve data collection on poisoning incidents without altering the core responsibilities of hospital staff.
