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Senate Bill S7163

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires every new student at a state university of New York and a city university of New York campus receive training at orientation in the administration of opioid antagonists

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2025-S7163 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Higher Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §6438-a, Ed L

2025-S7163 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires every new student at a state university of New York and a city university of New York campus receive training at orientation in the administration of opioid antagonists; requires each campus to provide and maintain onsite in each college-owned or college-operated building opioid antagonists.

2025-S7163 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7163 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7163
 
                        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 Higher Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  requiring  every  new
   student at a state university of New York and a city university of New
   York  campus  receive training at orientation in the administration of
   opioid antagonists
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  6438-a of the education law, as added by chapter
 580 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
   § 6438-a. Opioid overdose prevention [in college  housing].  1.  Every
 campus  of the state university of New York and every campus of the city
 university of New York 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  NEW  STUDENT  AT
 ORIENTATION  AND  TO  EVERY  resident assistant employed by such campus.
 Such campuses shall provide and maintain onsite in each college-owned or
 college-operated [housing] BUILDING opioid antagonists,  as  defined  in
 section  thirty-three  hundred nine of the public health law, in quanti-
 ties and types deemed by the commissioner of health. Such opioid  antag-
 onists  shall  be accessible by every resident assistant, STUDENT, STAFF
 OR OTHER INDIVIDUAL for use during emergencies to any student, staff  or
 other individual on college-owned or college-operated [housing premises]
 BUILDINGS suspected of having an opioid overdose whether or not there is
 a previous history of opioid abuse.
   2. Each campus of the state university of New York and every campus of
 the  city  university of New York may designate additional employees who
 volunteer to administer opioid antagonists  [in  the  event  a  resident
 assistant  is  not physically present] at a suspected overdose incident,
 provided that such employee is trained in the administration  of  opioid
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11346-01-5
 S. 7163                             2

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