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§ 960.23. Establishment and design

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 35 P.S. Health and SafetyEffective: January 3, 2023

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 35 P.S. Health and Safety (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 6B. Drugs, Poisons and Dangerous Substances
Overdose Mapping Act
Effective: January 3, 2023
35 P.S. § 960.23
§ 960.23. Establishment and design
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(a) Establishment.--The Pennsylvania State Police shall launch an overdose information network for the purpose of electronically tracking known or suspected overdoses in this Commonwealth. The following apply:
(1) The network shall be administered by the Pennsylvania State Police in consultation with the Department of Health. All technical onboarding, assistance and maintenance of the overdose information network shall be provided by the Pennsylvania State Police.
(2) The overdose information network shall be accessible by authorized users.
(3) The Pennsylvania State Police, in consultation with the Department of Health, shall adopt, amend and rescind rules, regulations, guidelines and protocols for the function and administration of the network, which shall address, at a minimum, the following:
(i) The best options for maintaining the network and ensuring ease of use and online access by authorized users, including developing instructions on how to use and access the network.
(ii) The best practices for record retention within the network.
(iii) Identifying and defining roles of authorized users who have access to the network.
(iv) Spike thresholds developed by the Department of Health using relevant public health data.
(v) Any other aspect of the network's function, use or administration as may be required over time to ensure that the network meets the needs of authorized users and local leaders.
(4) The overdose information network shall send automatic and immediate overdose spike alerts to preapproved State, county and local governmental, public health and public safety leaders, which may be used to make actionable decisions in their areas of responsibility.
(5) The Pennsylvania State Police shall share examples of the spike-response framework with State, county and local leaders and support the leaders in the implementation of the responses by providing access to overdose data and useful reports based on the data.
(6) The Pennsylvania State Police shall utilize an application programming interface to connect the data in the network with the Overdose Mapping Application Program created by the Washington-Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas.
(7) The Pennsylvania State Police shall enter into participation agreements, data sharing agreements and other memoranda of understanding necessary to fully implement the network with other Commonwealth, county or local entities.
(b) Design.--The overdose information network shall be designed to avoid data entry duplication wherever possible, which may include using one or more application programming interfaces to transfer information about overdoses that are currently reported to active databases existing in this Commonwealth.
(c) Annual report.--The Department of Health, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania State Police, shall issue an annual report and post the report on its publicly accessible Internet website. The report must identify, at a minimum, the following information:
(1) The total number of known or suspected overdoses in each county.
(2) The total number of overdose reversal drugs administered by authorized users to known or suspected overdose victims in each county.
(3) The total number of reported overdose deaths involving any opioid or synthetic opioid in each county.
(4) The total number of reported overdose deaths involving a controlled substance other than an opioid or synthetic opioid in each county.
(5) The total number of reported overdose deaths involving fentanyl or any analogue of fentanyl or any controlled substance or counterfeit substance containing any trace of fentanyl or any analogue of fentanyl in each county.
(6) The time and geographic location of any overdose spikes.
(7) Contact information for the national drug abuse hotline, the Department of Drug and Alcohol Program's hotline and any other substance abuse treatment providers or drug rehabilitative specialists.

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2022, Nov. 3, P.L. 2158, No. 158, § 3, effective in 60 days [Jan. 3, 2023].
35 P.S. § 960.23, PA ST 35 P.S. § 960.23
Current through Act 92 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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