Bill > A1417

Introduced Session

This bill amends the "Overdose Prevention Act," P.L.2013, c.42 (C.24:6J-1 et seq.), to require each county health department to obtain and maintain in an accessible storage location, a reserve stock of opioid antidotes that can be accessed by law enforcement agencies, emergency medical response entities, schools, and hospital pharmacies to ensure those entities have access to an uninterrupted supply of opioid antidotes. The exact quantity of opioid antidotes to be maintained in the reserve stock will be determined by the director of each county health department in consultation with the county prosecutor, the county association of police chiefs, and the county association of fire chiefs, and with input from law enforcement agencies, emergency medical response entities, hospitals, school districts, and schools operating in that county. The bill specifies that, whenever a law enforcement agency, emergency medical response entity, school, or hospital pharmacy anticipates it will exhaust its supply of opioid antidotes before it is able to acquire more, it may make a request to the county health department to provide an interim supply of opioid antidotes from the county health department's reserve stock. Upon receiving a request, the county health department will be required to promptly deliver to the requester an interim supply sufficient to meet the requester's need for opioid antidotes for the interim period between the date the requester's supply is expected to be exhausted and the date the requester expects to receive a new supply of opioid antidotes by regular means. Law enforcement agencies, emergency medical response entities, schools, and hospital pharmacies that obtain an interim supply of opioid antidotes from a county health department's reserve stock will be required to reimburse the county health department for the department's actual costs in acquiring and delivering the interim supply. The bill expressly authorizes county health departments to enter into shared service agreements, in accordance with the "Uniform Shared Services and Consolidation Act," in order to facilitate the acquisition of opioid antidotes at discounted rates, minimize delivery costs, and otherwise facilitate the implementation of the provisions of the bill.

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Shama Haider (D)*, 

Introduced, Referred to Assembly Health Committee (on 01/09/2024)

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