Legislation
SECTION 902-B
Treatment by licensed school personnel of students diagnosed with allergies
Education (EDN) CHAPTER 16, TITLE 1, ARTICLE 19
§ 902-b. Treatment by licensed school personnel of students diagnosed
with allergies. 1. (a) Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician
assistants, or physicians employed by schools are authorized to
administer prescribed epinephrine pursuant to the scope of practice of
the licensed individual under title VIII of this chapter, to pupils
diagnosed by a physician or other duly authorized health care provider
with an allergy who have the written permission of a physician or other
duly authorized health care provider for the administration of emergency
epinephrine and written parental consent to carry and use an epinephrine
device pursuant to section nine hundred sixteen-a of this article,
during the school day on school property and at any school function as
such terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of
section eleven of this chapter.
(b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "epinephrine
device" shall have the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (b) of
subdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.
2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or
their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as
a result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person
caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.
with allergies. 1. (a) Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician
assistants, or physicians employed by schools are authorized to
administer prescribed epinephrine pursuant to the scope of practice of
the licensed individual under title VIII of this chapter, to pupils
diagnosed by a physician or other duly authorized health care provider
with an allergy who have the written permission of a physician or other
duly authorized health care provider for the administration of emergency
epinephrine and written parental consent to carry and use an epinephrine
device pursuant to section nine hundred sixteen-a of this article,
during the school day on school property and at any school function as
such terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of
section eleven of this chapter.
(b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "epinephrine
device" shall have the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (b) of
subdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.
2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or
their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as
a result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person
caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.