NYC Council Introduction 855

intro.nyc/0855-2024 2024-2025 Legislative Session
Offering fentanyl test strips at syringe exchange programs.
Status: Committee Committee on Mental Health, Disabilities and Addiction
Sponsored by Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
Introduced: April 18, 2024

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.