Bill Summary for S 20 (2013-2014)

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Bill: GOOD SAMARITAN LAW/NALOXONE ACCESS.

Summary date: 

Mar 20 2013
S.L. 2013-23

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View NCGA Bill Details2013-2014 Session
Senate Bill 20 (Public) Filed Wednesday, January 30, 2013
A BILL ENTITLED AN ACT TO PROVIDE LIMITED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION FOR (1) CERTAIN DRUG-RELATED OFFENSES COMMITTED BY AN INDIVIDUAL WHO SEEKS MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR A PERSON EXPERIENCING A DRUG-RELATED OVERDOSE AND (2) CERTAIN DRUG -RELATED OFFENSES COMMITTED BY AN INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCING A DRUG-RELATED OVERDOSE AND IN NEED OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE; TO PROVIDE IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL OR CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR (1) PRACTITIONERS WHO PRESCRIBE AN OPIOID ANTAGONIST TO CERTAIN THIRD PARTIES AND (2) CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS WHO ADMINISTER AN OPIOID ANTAGONIST TO A PERSON EXPERIENCING A DRUG-RELATED OVERDOSE; AND TO PROVIDE LIMITED IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION FOR CERTAIN ALCOHOL-RELATED OFFENSES COMMITTED BY PERSONS UNDER THE AGE OF 21 WHO SEEK MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR ANOTHER PERSON.
Intro. by Bingham, Allran.

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House committee substitute makes the following changes to the 3rd edition.

Amends GS 90-96.2, adding language that states that a person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for an individual experiencing a drug-related overdose, and who did not physcially supply the drugs to the person experiencing the drug-related overdose, shall not be prosecuted (previously, there was no language about the person helping the overdose victim having to not be the one who supplied the drugs) for specified offenses.

Changes effective date of act; now becomes effective when the act becomes law (previously, there were different effective and application dates).