Senate Bill S6779

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the employment of school nurses for the inspection of pupils attending certain public schools

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Education 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-S6779 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§901 & 902, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S4782
2023-2024: S4953

2025-S6779 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the employment of school nurses for the inspection of pupils attending certain public schools; relates to school districts and boards of cooperative educational services.

2025-S6779 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S6779 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6779
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              March 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. JACKSON, HARCKHAM, RAMOS, SALAZAR -- read twice and
   ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
   Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to public school nurse
   staffing determinations in consultation with a nursing association

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision  1  of section 901 of the education law, as
 amended by section 57 of part A-1 of chapter 58 of the laws of 2006,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  School  health  services,  as  defined  in subdivision two of this
 section, shall be provided by each  school  district  for  all  students
 attending  the  public schools in this state, [except in the city school
 district of the city of New York,] as provided in this  article.  School
 health  services shall include the services of a registered professional
 nurse[, if one is employed,] and shall also include such services as may
 be rendered as provided in this article in examining  students  for  the
 existence  of  disease or disability and in testing the eyes and ears of
 such students.
   § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 902 of the education law,
 as amended by chapter 501 of the laws of 2005, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   b.  Any  such board or trustees [may] OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BOARD
 OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL employ  [one  or  more  school
 nurses,  who  shall  be registered professional nurses, as well as other
 health professionals, as may be  required.]  A  MINIMUM  OF  ONE  SCHOOL
 NURSE,  WHO  SHALL  BE  A  REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE, IN EACH SCHOOL
 BUILDING.  ANY SUCH BOARD OR TRUSTEES OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT  OR  BOARD
 OF  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES  MAY  EMPLOY OTHER HEALTH PROFES-
 SIONALS, AS MAY BE REQUIRED. Such  registered  professional  nurses  and
 other  health  professionals  shall  aid  the  director of school health
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11252-01-5

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