Bill Text: NY S01239 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to allowing the administration of prescribed glucagon or epinephrine auto injectors in emergency situations by trained unlicensed school personnel.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-1)

Status: (Passed) 2021-08-02 - SIGNED CHAP.339 [S01239 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01239-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1239

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 8, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  MAYER, ADDABBO, BENJAMIN, BROOKS, COMRIE, FELDER,
          GAUGHRAN, GOUNARDES, HELMING, KRUEGER, MAY, RIVERA, SALAZAR,  SEPULVE-
          DA, STAVISKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
          committed to the Committee on Education

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing the adminis-
          tration of certain prescribed medications by trained unlicensed school
          personnel

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 921 of the education law, as added
     2  by chapter 423 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  The  board  of  education  or trustees of each school district and
     4  board of cooperative educational  services  and  nonpublic  schools  are
     5  authorized,  but  not obligated to have licensed registered professional
     6  nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians  train
     7  unlicensed  school  personnel to [inject] administer prescribed glucagon
     8  or epinephrine auto injectors in emergency situations, where  an  appro-
     9  priately  licensed  health  professional is not available, to pupils who
    10  have the written permission of a  physician  or  other  duly  authorized
    11  health  care provider for the administration of [injectable] glucagon or
    12  emergency  epinephrine  auto  injector,  along  with  written   parental
    13  consent,  during  the  school  day  on school property and at any school
    14  function as such terms are defined, respectively,  by  subdivisions  one
    15  and  two of section eleven of this chapter. Training must be provided by
    16  a physician or other duly authorized licensed health  care  professional
    17  in  a  competent  manner  and  must  be  completed  in a form and manner
    18  prescribed by the commissioner in regulation.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02626-01-1