Bill Text: NY S06613 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6613

Introduced

Bill Title: Authorizes schools to possess and administer FDA approved opioid reversal agents in emergency situations to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the human body.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S06613 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06613-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          6613

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       May 1, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 authorizing schools to
          possess and administer FDA approved opioid reversal agents in emergen-
          cy situations

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  921-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  921-b.  On-site  FDA  approved  opioid reversal agents.   1. School
     4  districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational
     5  education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public  elemen-
     6  tary  and  secondary  schools  in  this  state  may provide and maintain
     7  on-site in each instructional school facility all  FDA  approved  opioid
     8  reversal  agents  in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner, in
     9  consultation with the commissioner of health, to be adequate  to  ensure
    10  ready  and  appropriate access for use during emergencies to any student
    11  or staff to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacologi-
    12  cal effects of an opioid in the human body.
    13    2. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, coun-
    14  ty vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and  non-
    15  public  elementary  and  secondary  schools  in  this  state, any person
    16  employed by any such entity, or employed by  a  contractor  of  such  an
    17  entity  while  performing services for the entity may administer any FDA
    18  approved opioid reversal agents in the event of an emergency.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    20  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    21  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    22  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    23  completed on or before such effective date.

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