Bill Text: NY A03577 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires New York city, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester school districts, to employ a minimum of one school nurse per school building; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate additional staffing requirements.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-3)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to education [A03577 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03577-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3577 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, PERRY, CRESPO, BENEDETTO, BRONSON, BRABENEC, ABINANTI, JAFFEE, ORTIZ -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GOTTFRIED, HEVESI, McDONOUGH, RAIA, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring school nurs- es in school buildings in certain school districts 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 in New York city, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester 6 shall employ a minimum of one school nurse in each school building, with 7 additional staffing determinations promulgated by the commissioner in 8 consultation with at least one professional nursing association. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next 10 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. LBD01156-01-9
