assembly Bill A8049

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer seizure rescue medication in schools

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Jan 05, 2022 referred to education
Jun 11, 2021 referred to education

A8049 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4650
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §921, add §§902-c & 916-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5434, S3129

A8049 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer certain seizure rescue medication in schools, on school grounds and at school events; provides that such medicine may be left with a school health official to be used as needed.

A8049 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8049
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 11, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to allowing for unli-
   censed personnel to administer seizure rescue medication
 
   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 prescribed glucagon or epinephrine
 auto injectors, OR ADMINISTER DIAZEPAM OR MIDAZOLAM NASAL SPRAY in emer-
 gency situations, where an appropriately 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,  OR
 DIAZEPAM OR MIDAZOLAM NASAL SPRAY, 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 compe-
 tent manner and must be completed in a form and manner prescribed by the
 commissioner in regulation.
   § 2. The education law is amended by adding two new sections 902-c and
 916-c to read as follows:
   § 902-C. TREATMENT OF  STUDENTS  DIAGNOSED  WITH  EPILEPSY  BY  SCHOOL
 PERSONNEL.  1.   LICENSED NURSES, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHYSICIAN ASSIST-
 ANTS, OR PHYSICIANS EMPLOYED BY  SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR BOARDS  OF  COOPER-
 ATIVE  EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER PRESCRIBED
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.