Senate Bill S7766

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to administering asthma rescue medications and authorizing schools to have asthma rescue medications for emergency situations

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Higher Education Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S7766 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6527, 6909 & 916, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6921
2021-2022: S1019

2017-S7766 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to administering asthma rescue medications and authorizing schools to possess and administer asthma rescue medications in emergency situations to pupils with a requirement that the parent or guardian of such pupils are notified in writing of such emergency situation.

2017-S7766 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S7766 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7766
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 21, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. ALCANTARA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the education law, in relation to administering asthma
   rescue medications and authorizing schools to possess  and  administer
   asthma rescue medications in emergency situations

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 6 of section  6527  of  the  education  law  is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   (H) ADMINISTERING ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATIONS.
   §  2. Subdivision 4 of section 6909 of the education law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   (H) ADMINISTERING ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATIONS.
   § 3. Section 916 of the education law, as amended by  chapter  423  of
 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   §  916.  Pupils  with  asthma or another respiratory disease requiring
 rescue inhaler treatment. 1. The board of education or trustees of  each
 school  district,  INCLUDING  THE  BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK, and board of cooperative educational services shall  allow  pupils
 who  have  been diagnosed by a physician or other duly authorized health
 care provider with an asthmatic condition or another respiratory disease
 to carry and use a prescribed inhaler and self-administer inhaled rescue
 medications to alleviate respiratory symptoms or to prevent the onset of
 exercise induced asthmatic symptoms during  the  school  day  on  school
 property  and  at any school function as such terms are defined, respec-
 tively, by subdivisions one and two of section eleven of  this  chapter,
 with  the  written  permission  of  a physician or other duly authorized
 health care provider, and written parental consent. The written  permis-
 sion  shall  include  an attestation by the physician or the health care
 provider confirming the following: (a) the pupil is diagnosed with asth-
 ma or another respiratory disease for which inhaled  rescue  medications
 are prescribed to alleviate respiratory symptoms or to prevent the onset
 of  exercise  induced  asthmatic  symptoms;  and  (b) that the pupil has
 demonstrated that he or she can self-administer the  prescribed  inhaled
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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