Bill Text: NY A01489 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires that a registered nurse be in each school when medically fragile students are in attendance or when students are at major risk of injury.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to education [A01489 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01489-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1489
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GUNTHER, BENEDETTO, COLTON, ORTIZ, ABBATE --
         Multi-Sponsored by -- M.  of A. COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, LIFTON,  McDONOUGH,
         PEOPLES-STOKES, ROBINSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on
         Education
       AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education law, in relation to the attendance of
         certain trained health professionals in public school buildings
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 902 of the education law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    3    4. NOTWITHSTANDING ANY OTHER PROVISION OF LAW, THE TRUSTEE OR BOARD OF
    4  TRUSTEES  OF  EACH  SCHOOL  DISTRICT OR BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL
    5  SERVICES SHALL EMPLOY ONE OR MORE REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSES  TO  BE
    6  PRESENT  IN  EACH  SCHOOL  BUILDING AT ANY TIME THAT A MEDICALLY FRAGILE
    7  STUDENT IS IN ATTENDANCE OR WHEN STUDENTS ARE AT A MAJOR RISK  OF  PHYS-
    8  ICAL  INJURY,  IN  ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMIS-
    9  SIONER.
   10    S 2. This act shall  take  effect  on  the  first  of  September  next
   11  succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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