Bill Text: NY A02114 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes schools to possess and administer FDA approved opioid reversal agents in emergency situations to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the human body.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-4)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A02114 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02114-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2114

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. DAVILA -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing schools to
          possess and administer naloxone in emergency situations

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section  921-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  921-b. On-site naloxone. 1. School districts, boards of cooperative
     4  educational services, county vocational education and extension  boards,
     5  charter schools, and non-public elementary and secondary schools in this
     6  state  may  provide  and  maintain  on-site in each instructional school
     7  facility naloxone in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner, in
     8  consultation with the commissioner of health, to be adequate  to  ensure
     9  ready  and  appropriate access for use during emergencies to any student
    10  or staff to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacologi-
    11  cal effects of an opioid in the human body.
    12    2. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, coun-
    13  ty vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and  non-
    14  public  elementary  and  secondary  schools  in  this  state, any person
    15  employed by any such entity, or employed by  a  contractor  of  such  an
    16  entity  while performing services for the entity may administer naloxone
    17  in the event of an emergency.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition,  amend-
    20  ment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implemen-
    21  tation  of  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
    22  completed on or before such effective date.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02445-01-3