Bill Text: NY S03446 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists during all school hours and after school activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S03446 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S03446-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3446

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 29, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. ADDABBO, JACKSON -- 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 requiring high schools
          to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists

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

     1    Section 1. Section 922 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3.  Notwithstanding  any other law, all high schools shall acquire and
     4  possess an opioid antagonist for emergency treatment of a person appear-
     5  ing to experience an opioid-related overdose. High schools shall  desig-
     6  nate  at  least  one employee who has completed a training course in the
     7  use of opioid antagonists approved under section  three  thousand  three
     8  hundred nine of the public health law to be responsible for the storage,
     9  maintenance,  control,  and  general oversight of the opioid antagonist.
    10  There shall be a designated employee on school grounds during all school
    11  hours and after school activities to administer such opioid antagonists.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04268-01-1