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Assembly Bill A10634

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes schools to possess and administer naloxone in emergency situations

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2021-A10634 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §921-b, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2023-2024: A2114
2025-2026: A1057

2021-A10634 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes schools to possess and administer naloxone in emergency situations to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the human body.

2021-A10634 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10634
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 6, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing schools to
   possess and administer naloxone in emergency situations
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 921-b
 to read as follows:
   § 921-B. ON-SITE NALOXONE. 1. SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BOARDS OF  COOPERATIVE
 EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES, COUNTY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXTENSION BOARDS,
 CHARTER SCHOOLS, AND NON-PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THIS
 STATE MAY PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN  ON-SITE  IN  EACH  INSTRUCTIONAL  SCHOOL
 FACILITY NALOXONE IN QUANTITIES AND TYPES DEEMED BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN
 CONSULTATION  WITH  THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, TO BE ADEQUATE TO ENSURE
 READY AND APPROPRIATE ACCESS FOR USE DURING EMERGENCIES TO  ANY  STUDENT
 OR STAFF TO NEGATE OR NEUTRALIZE, IN WHOLE OR IN PART, THE PHARMACOLOGI-
 CAL EFFECTS OF AN OPIOID IN THE HUMAN BODY.
   2. SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, COUN-
 TY  VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXTENSION BOARDS, CHARTER SCHOOLS, AND NON-
 PUBLIC ELEMENTARY AND  SECONDARY  SCHOOLS  IN  THIS  STATE,  ANY  PERSON
 EMPLOYED  BY  ANY  SUCH  ENTITY,  OR EMPLOYED BY A CONTRACTOR OF SUCH AN
 ENTITY WHILE PERFORMING SERVICES FOR THE ENTITY MAY ADMINISTER  NALOXONE
 IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
 it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
 health, in consultation with the commissioner of education, may  promul-
 gate  any  rule or regulation necessary for the timely implementation of
 this act on its effective date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15651-01-2

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