Senate Bill S6230A

                             
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                                  6230--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 7, 2025
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 Introduced  by  Sens.  WEBB,  HINCHEY, PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Health
   --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
   to authorizing camp employees to administer medications and  treatment
   to children under certain circumstances
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 1394 of the public health law is amended by  adding
 a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10.  EACH  CHILDREN'S  OVERNIGHT,  SUMMER DAY, OR TRAVELING SUMMER DAY
 CAMP, MAY PERMIT EMPLOYEES OF SUCH CAMP TO  ADMINISTER  OVER-THE-COUNTER
 MEDICATIONS  PURSUANT  TO  A STANDING ORDER INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO
 FOR THE PURPOSES OF PAIN RELIEF OR  THE  TREATMENT  OF  ANAPHYLAXIS  AND
 MOTION  SICKNESS  OR PRESCRIPTION MEDICATIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF EMER-
 GENCY CONDITIONS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ASTHMA,  ANAPHYLAXIS,  AND
 ORAL  OR  NASAL  SPRAY  SEIZURE MEDICATIONS.   SUCH MEDICATIONS SHALL BE
 APPROVED BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  AND  ADMINISTERED  PURSUANT  TO  SECTION
 SIXTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE
 RULES  AND  REGULATIONS PROMULGATED BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION
 WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION.
   § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 6908 of  the  education
 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
   (VI)  THE  ADMINISTRATION  OF MEDICATIONS OR TREATMENT BY EMPLOYEES OF
 CHILDREN'S OVERNIGHT CAMP, SUMMER DAY CAMP AND TRAVELING SUMMER DAY CAMP
 WHERE SUCH EMPLOYEES HAVE  BEEN  GIVEN  SPECIFIC  AUTHORIZATION  BY  THE
 CAMP'S MEDICAL DIRECTOR, TO ADMINISTER SUCH MEDICATIONS OR TREATMENTS TO
 A  SPECIFIC  CHILD,  ARE  ACTING  UNDER THE DIRECTION AND AUTHORITY OF A
 PARENT OF A CHILD, LEGAL GUARDIAN, LEGAL CUSTODIAN, OR AN ADULT IN WHOSE
 CARE A CHILD HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED AND WHO  HAVE  BEEN  AUTHORIZED  BY  THE
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00934-04-5
              

 S. 6230--A                          2
 
 PARENT  OR  GUARDIAN  TO  CONSENT  TO  HEALTH  CARE FOR THE CHILD AND IN
 COMPLIANCE WITH REGULATIONS PROMULGATED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF  HEALTH
 PERTAINING TO THE ADMINISTRATION OF MEDICATIONS AND TREATMENT;
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.