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Senate Bill S8995

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing the administration of certain prescribed medications by trained unlicensed school personnel

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2019-S8995 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A11053
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §921, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
S1239, A5127

2019-S8995 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S8995 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S8995 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8995
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 21, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 921 of the education law, as added
 by chapter 423 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   1. The board of education or trustees  of  each  school  district  and
 board  of  cooperative  educational  services  and nonpublic schools are
 authorized, but not obligated to have licensed  registered  professional
 nurses,  nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians train
 unlicensed school personnel to [inject] ADMINISTER  prescribed  glucagon
 or  epinephrine  auto injectors in emergency situations, where an appro-
 priately licensed health professional is not available,  to  pupils  who
 have  the  written  permission  of  a physician or other duly authorized
 health care provider for the administration of [injectable] glucagon  or
 emergency   epinephrine  auto  injector,  along  with  written  parental
 consent, during the school day on school  property  and  at  any  school
 function  as  such  terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one
 and two of section eleven of this chapter. Training must be provided  by
 a  physician  or other duly authorized licensed health care professional
 in a competent manner and  must  be  completed  in  a  form  and  manner
 prescribed by the commissioner in regulation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD17337-01-0

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