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Senate Bill S7161

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits a school district from employing certain school health professionals if such health professionals are already employed by another school district

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2025-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §902, Ed L

2025-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits a school district from employing a qualified physician or nurse practitioner as a director of school health services if such qualified physician or nurse practitioner is already employed by another school district.

2025-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7161 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7161
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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  prohibiting  school
   districts  from  employing certain health professionals if such health
   professionals are already employed by another school district

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 902 of the educa-
 tion law, as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2015, is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   a.  The  board  of  education, and the trustee or board of trustees of
 each school district, shall employ, at a compensation to be agreed  upon
 by  the  parties,  a qualified physician, or a nurse practitioner to the
 extent authorized by the nurse practice act and consistent with subdivi-
 sion three of section six thousand nine hundred two of this chapter,  to
 perform  the duties of the director of school health services, including
 any duties conferred on the school physician or school medical inspector
 under any provision of law, to perform and coordinate the  provision  of
 health  services  in the public schools and to provide health appraisals
 of students attending the  public  schools  in  the  city  or  district;
 PROVIDED,  HOWEVER, THAT NO SUCH BOARD OR TRUSTEES SHALL EMPLOY A PHYSI-
 CIAN OR NURSE PRACTITIONER TO PERFORM THE  DUTIES  OF  THE  DIRECTOR  OF
 SCHOOL  HEALTH  SERVICES  IF  SUCH  PHYSICIAN  OR  NURSE PRACTITIONER IS
 ALREADY EMPLOYED BY ANOTHER SCHOOL DISTRICT, UNLESS SUCH BOARD OR  TRUS-
 TEES  CERTIFIES  TO THE COMMISSIONER, IN A FORM AND MANNER AS DETERMINED
 BY THE COMMISSIONER, THAT THERE IS A SHORTAGE OF ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES FOR
 SUCH EMPLOYMENT WITHIN SUCH SCHOOL DISTRICT.   The physicians  or  nurse
 practitioners  so employed shall be duly licensed pursuant to applicable
 law.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10866-01-5

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