Assembly Bill A8814

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to expanding opioid overdose prevention measures in certain settings

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-A8814 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §922, Ed L

2025-A8814 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires school districts, public libraries, BOCES, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public schools to provide and maintain on-site opioid antagonists.

2025-A8814 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8814
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding opioid over-
   dose prevention measures in certain settings
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 922 of the education law, as amended by chapter  68
 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   §  922.  Opioid  overdose  prevention.  1.  School  districts,  public
 libraries, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational
 education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public  elemen-
 tary  and  secondary schools in this state [may] SHALL provide and main-
 tain on-site in each instructional school facility  or  library,  opioid
 antagonists,  as defined in section three thousand three hundred nine of
 the public health law, in quantities and types deemed by the commission-
 er, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to be  adequate  to
 ensure  ready  and  appropriate access for use during emergencies to any
 student, individual on library premises or  staff  suspected  of  having
 opioid  overdose  whether  or  not there is a previous history of opioid
 abuse.
   2. School districts, public libraries, boards  of  cooperative  educa-
 tional services, county vocational education and extension boards, char-
 ter  schools,  and  non-public  elementary and secondary schools in this
 state [may] SHALL elect to participate as an opioid antagonist recipient
 and any person employed by any such entity that has elected  to  partic-
 ipate  may administer an opioid antagonist in the event of an emergency,
 provided that such person shall have been trained by a program  approved
 under  section  three  thousand  three hundred nine of the public health
 law. Any school district, public library, board  of  cooperative  educa-
 tional  services, county vocational education and extension board, char-
 ter school, and non-public elementary  and  secondary  school  that  has
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13224-01-5

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