Bill Text: NY A02930 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of education to establish rules and regulations prohibiting school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for children.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A02930 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02930-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2930 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to recommendations for and refusals of the use of psychotropic drugs by children The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 57 to read as follows: 3 57. The commissioner shall establish rules and regulations prohibiting 4 school personnel from recommending psychotropic drugs for any child. 5 Such rules and regulations shall not in any way prohibit school medical 6 staff from recommending that a child see a medical doctor, nor prohibit 7 school personnel from consulting with a doctor, if parental consent to 8 do so has been granted. 9 § 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, rule or regulation to 10 the contrary, the refusal of a parent, guardian or person in parental 11 relation to a child to administer a psychotropic drug to such child 12 shall not be considered as grounds for that child's removal from their 13 custody, unless such a refusal results in the neglect or abuse of such 14 child. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07359-01-9