S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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762
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all
college-owned or college-operated housing to provide and maintain an
opioid antagonist onsite
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6438-a of the education law, as
added by chapter 580 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
1. Every campus of the state university of New York and every campus
of the city university of New York, AND EVERY COLLEGE CHARTERED BY THE
REGENTS OR INCORPORATED BY SPECIAL ACT OF THE LEGISLATURE AND WHICH
MAINTAINS A CAMPUS, shall provide training in the administration of
opioid antagonists pursuant to a program approved under section thirty-
three hundred nine of the public health law to every resident assistant
employed by such campus. Such campuses shall provide and maintain onsite
in each college-owned or college-operated housing opioid antagonists, as
defined in section thirty-three hundred nine of the public health law,
in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner of health. Such
opioid antagonists shall be accessible by every resident assistant for
use during emergencies to any student, staff or other individual on
college-owned or college-operated housing premises suspected of having
an opioid overdose whether or not there is a previous history of opioid
abuse.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02559-01-5
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