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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relates to establishing a drug assistance demonstration program and authorizing emergency prescriptions"
+description: "Establishes a drug assistance demonstration program and authorizes emergency prescriptions."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
+legislature: "New York Legislature"
+session: "2019-2020"
+identifier: "S 6492"
+citation: "New York S 6492 (2019-2020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["RIVERA"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2019-06-13"
+last_action: "2021-01-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/589014d7-6657-4b1d-9271-e9f1e6ed54d4"
+source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2019/S6492"
+source_hash: "f9dda41833ed22492404f012967fdd90590dba4ff35c2064408af041ed2272b0"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
+---
+
+# New York S 6492 (2019-2020) — Relates to establishing a drug assistance demonstration program and authorizing emergency prescriptions
+
+Establishes a drug assistance demonstration program and authorizes emergency prescriptions.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **S6492** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S6492&term=2019&Text=Y)
+2. **S6492A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S6492A)
+3. **S6492B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2019/S6492B)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Assembly Vote — **141–0** (pass) · lower
+- Finance Vote - Version: A — **23–0** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote - Version: B — **59–1** (pass) · upper
+- Rules Vote — **19–0** (pass) · upper
+- Floor Vote — **62–0** (pass) · upper
+- Health Vote - Version: A — **15–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- RIVERA — primary (person)
+- CARLUCCI — cosponsor (person)
+- GOUNARDES — cosponsor (person)
+- HARCKHAM — cosponsor (person)
+- HOYLMAN — cosponsor (person)
+- KAPLAN — cosponsor (person)
+- KRUEGER — cosponsor (person)
+- LIU — cosponsor (person)
+- MAYER — cosponsor (person)
+- METZGER — cosponsor (person)
+- MYRIE — cosponsor (person)
+- PERSAUD — cosponsor (person)
+- RAMOS — cosponsor (person)
+- SALAZAR — cosponsor (person)
+- SEPULVEDA — cosponsor (person)
+- SERRANO — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-06-13** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
+- **2019-06-18** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.1642
+- **2019-06-18** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2019-06-18** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2019-06-19** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-08** DIED IN ASSEMBLY
+- **2020-01-08** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2020-01-08** REFERRED TO HEALTH `referral-committee`
+- **2020-01-14** AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO HEALTH `referral-committee, amendment-passage`
+- **2020-01-14** PRINT NUMBER 6492A `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-01-28** REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO FINANCE `referral-committee`
+- **2020-03-03** 1ST REPORT CAL.555
+- **2020-03-04** 2ND REPORT CAL.
+- **2020-03-10** ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
+- **2020-06-10** AMENDED ON THIRD READING 6492B `amendment-passage`
+- **2020-07-21** PASSED SENATE `passage`
+- **2020-07-21** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
+- **2020-07-21** REFERRED TO WAYS AND MEANS `referral-committee`
+- **2020-07-23** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8533B
+- **2020-07-23** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.314
+- **2020-07-23** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
+- **2020-07-23** RETURNED TO SENATE
+- **2020-12-30** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2021-01-30** SIGNED CHAP.388 `executive-signature`
+- **2021-01-30** APPROVAL MEMO.77
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/589014d7-6657-4b1d-9271-e9f1e6ed54d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
+