S56 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Establishes through the department of health a drug checking services program to allow individuals to bring drugs or controlled substances and have them tested for contaminants, toxic substances, or hazardous compounds; requires the department to establish public health surveillance of the unregulated drug supply; provides exemptions for participants in the drug checking program from certain controlled substance offenses.
- Title
- Establishes a drug checking program
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-05-12
- In committee
- Ways And Means
- Introduced
- 2024-12-17
- Active version
- S56B
- Same as
- A808
- Law section
- Public Health Law
Sponsors
- Nathalia Fernandez State Senator, District 34
Co-sponsors
Heard in committee
- Ways and Means NY State Assembly committee
- Finance NY State Senate committee
- Health NY State Senate committee
- Rules NY State Senate committee
Same as
- A808 (2025-26 session) NY State bill
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Finance, 2026-03-24 First reading
- Health, 2026-02-04 Referred to committee; referred to Finance
- Rules, 2025-05-29
- Health, 2025-04-29