Relates to requirements regarding employers including opioid antagonists where first aid kits are required by federal law, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   9453
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 6, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Labor
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to
   include an opioid antagonist in first aid supplies required by federal
   law; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the labor law
   relating to requiring employers to include  an  opioid  antagonist  in
   first aid supplies required by federal law, as proposed in legislative
   bills  numbers S.  5922-A and A. 2725-A, in relation to the effective-
   ness thereof
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 27-f of the labor law, as added by a chapter of the
 laws  of  2025 amending the labor law relating to requiring employers to
 include an opioid antagonist in first aid supplies required  by  federal
 law,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 5922-A and A. 2725-A,
 is amended to read as follows:
   § 27-f. Requiring first aid materials in a  workplace  to  include  an
 opioid  antagonist.  1. All employers that are federally mandated BY THE
 UNITED STATES OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACT OF  1970  (PUBLIC  LAW,
 91-596)  AND  SAFETY AND HEALTH STANDARDS PROMULGATED THEREUNDER to have
 first aid supplies readily available for the treatment  of  all  injured
 employees  must  [include]  HAVE an opioid antagonist [in such first aid
 supplies] AVAILABLE FOR USE IN PROVIDING FIRST AID OR  EMERGENCY  TREAT-
 MENT AT THE WORKPLACE.
   2.  For the purposes of this section, ["employer"] THE FOLLOWING TERMS
 SHALL HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A) "EMPLOYER" includes any person, corporation,  limited    liability
 company,  or  association  employing  any  individual in any occupation,
 industry, trade, business, or service. The  term  "employer"  shall  not
 include  [a governmental agency] THE STATE, ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF
 THE STATE, A PUBLIC  AUTHORITY  OR  ANY  OTHER  GOVERNMENTAL  AGENCY  OR
 INSTRUMENTALITY THEREOF.
   (B)  "OPIOID  ANTAGONIST" MEANS THE SAME AS DEFINED IN SECTION THIRTY-
 THREE HUNDRED NINE OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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   3. ADMINISTERING AN OPIOID ANTAGONIST PURSUANT TO THIS  SECTION  SHALL
 BE  CONSIDERED  FIRST AID OR EMERGENCY TREATMENT FOR PURPOSES OF SECTION
 THREE THOUSAND-A OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW.
   4. THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROMULGATE REGULATIONS, IN COORDINATION WITH
 THE  COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, TO ADDRESS THE APPROPRIATE NUMBER OF OPIOID
 ANTAGONISTS FOR WORKPLACES BASED ON  THE  SIZE  OF  THE  WORKPLACE;  THE
 TRAINING  OF PERSONNEL AND USE OF SUCH OPIOID ANTAGONISTS; AND ANY OTHER
 MATTER DEEMED NECESSARY BY SUCH COMMISSIONER TO EFFECTUATE THIS SECTION.
   § 2. Section 2 of a chapter of the laws of 2025 amending the labor law
 relating to requiring employers to include an opioid antagonist in first
 aid supplies required by federal law, as proposed in  legislative  bills
 numbers S. 5922-A and A. 2725-A, is amended to read as follows:
   § 2. This act shall take effect [on the one hundred eightieth day] ONE
 YEAR  after it shall have become a law. EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY, THE ADDI-
 TION, AMENDMENT, AND/OR  REPEAL OF ANY RULE OR REGULATION NECESSARY  FOR
 THE  IMPLEMENTATION  OF THIS ACT ON ITS EFFECTIVE DATE ARE AUTHORIZED TO
 BE MADE AND COMPLETED ON OR BEFORE SUCH EFFECTIVE DATE.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately;  provided  however,  that
 section  one  of  this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
 same manner as a chapter of the laws of  2025  amending  the  labor  law
 relating to requiring employers to include an opioid antagonist in first
 aid  supplies  required by federal law, as proposed in legislative bills
 numbers S. 5922-A and A. 2725-A, takes effect.