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Assembly Bill A10060A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes high schools to include opioid overdose prevention and non-intravenous opioid antagonist administration as part of required health education courses

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2025-A10060 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §804, add §922-a, Ed L

2025-A10060 - Summary

Authorizes high schools to include opioid overdose prevention and non-intravenous opioid antagonist administration as optional part of required health education courses; authorizes certain students to administer non-intravenous opioid antagonists.

2025-A10060 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10060
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to health education in
   schools relating to opioid  overdose  prevention  and  non-intravenous
   opioid antagonist administration
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1.  Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 804 of the education  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter 390 of the laws of 2016, are amended to read as
 follows:
   3. Instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other  drugs  shall  be
 included  in  the  health  education  provided for all elementary school
 pupils and shall be taught by  the  regular  classroom  teachers  or  by
 teachers  certified  to teach health education, AND BY MEDICAL DIRECTORS
 AND THEIR DESIGNEES.  Such instruction shall be  designed  according  to
 the  needs  and  abilities of the pupils at successive grade levels with
 the purpose of developing  desirable  health  behavior,  attitudes,  and
 knowledge as well as self-reliance and problem solving capacity.
   4.  Instruction  regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, in addi-
 tion to continued health guidance in the junior high school  grades  and
 the  senior high schools, shall be an integral part of a required health
 education course at each  of  these  levels  in  the  secondary  schools
 curriculum.    OPIOID  OVERDOSE  PREVENTION  AND  NON-INTRAVENOUS OPIOID
 ANTAGONIST ADMINISTRATION MAY ADDITIONALLY BE  AN  INTEGRAL  PART  OF  A
 REQUIRED  HEALTH  EDUCATION  COURSE  AT  THE  SENIOR  HIGH SCHOOL LEVEL.
 Students shall be required to demonstrate knowledge in the subject  area
 through  the use of a test, graded project or report, or any other means
 prescribed by the  school  authorities  regarding  alcohol,  drugs,  and
 tobacco.  Any  such course shall be taught by teachers holding a certif-
 icate to teach health, AND BY MEDICAL  DIRECTORS  AND  THEIR  DESIGNEES.
 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE PROFICIENCY OF THE
 USE  OF  OPIOID  OVERDOSE ANTAGONISTS AS A LIFE-SAVING TREATMENT. SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS MAY AUTHORIZE OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION  AND  NON-INTRAVENOUS
 OPIOID ANTAGONIST ADMINISTRATION TRAINING AND MAY AUTHORIZE STUDENTS WHO
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

2025-A10060A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §804, add §922-a, Ed L

2025-A10060A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes high schools to include opioid overdose prevention and non-intravenous opioid antagonist administration as optional part of required health education courses; authorizes certain students to administer non-intravenous opioid antagonists.

2025-A10060A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                 10060--A
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KELLES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted
   as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  health  education  in
   schools  relating  to  opioid  overdose prevention and non-intravenous
   opioid antagonist administration

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivisions 3 and 4 of section 804 of the education law,
 as amended by chapter 390 of the laws of 2016, are amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   3.  Instruction  regarding  alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs shall be
 included in the health education  provided  for  all  elementary  school
 pupils  and  shall  be  taught  by  the regular classroom teachers or by
 teachers certified to teach health education, AND BY  MEDICAL  DIRECTORS
 AND  THEIR  DESIGNEES.   Such instruction shall be designed according to
 the needs and abilities of the pupils at successive  grade  levels  with
 the  purpose  of  developing  desirable  health behavior, attitudes, and
 knowledge as well as self-reliance and problem solving capacity.
   4. Instruction regarding alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs,  in  addi-
 tion  to  continued health guidance in the junior high school grades and
 the senior high schools, shall be an integral part of a required  health
 education  course  at  each  of  these  levels  in the secondary schools
 curriculum.   OPIOID  OVERDOSE  PREVENTION  AND  NON-INTRAVENOUS  OPIOID
 ANTAGONIST  ADMINISTRATION  MAY  ADDITIONALLY  BE  AN INTEGRAL PART OF A
 REQUIRED HEALTH EDUCATION  COURSE  AT  THE  SENIOR  HIGH  SCHOOL  LEVEL.
 Students  shall be required to demonstrate knowledge in the subject area
 through the use of a test, graded project or report, or any other  means
 prescribed  by  the  school  authorities  regarding  alcohol, drugs, and
 tobacco. Any such course shall be taught by teachers holding  a  certif-
 icate  to  teach  health,  AND BY MEDICAL DIRECTORS AND THEIR DESIGNEES.
 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SHALL BE REQUIRED TO DEMONSTRATE PROFICIENCY OF THE
 USE OF OPIOID OVERDOSE ANTAGONISTS AS A  LIFE-SAVING  TREATMENT.  SCHOOL
 DISTRICTS  MAY  AUTHORIZE OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION AND NON-INTRAVENOUS
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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