Bill Text: NY A04485 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to opioid overdose prevention in college housing; requires training of resident assistants in the administration of opioid antagonists.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-11 - substituted by s3448a [A04485 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04485-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4485--B

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 4, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. O'DONNELL, BUTTENSCHON, SEAWRIGHT -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Higher Education  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee on Higher Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3,
          sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said
          committee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommit-
          ted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law,  in relation to opioid overdose
          prevention in college housing

          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 6438-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6438-a.  Opioid  overdose  prevention  in college housing. 1. Every
     4  campus of the state university of New York and every campus of the  city
     5  university  of  New York shall provide training in the administration of
     6  opioid antagonists pursuant to a program approved under section  thirty-
     7  three  hundred nine of the public health law to every resident assistant
     8  employed by such campus. Such campuses shall provide and maintain onsite
     9  in each college-owned or college-operated housing opioid antagonists, as
    10  defined in section thirty-three hundred nine of the public  health  law,
    11  in  quantities  and  types  deemed  by  the commissioner of health. Such
    12  opioid antagonists shall be accessible by every resident  assistant  for
    13  use  during  emergencies  to  any  student, staff or other individual on
    14  college-owned or college-operated housing premises suspected  of  having
    15  an  opioid overdose whether or not there is a previous history of opioid
    16  abuse.
    17    2. Each campus of the state university of New York and every campus of
    18  the city university of New York may designate additional  employees  who
    19  volunteer  to  administer  opioid  antagonists  in  the event a resident
    20  assistant is not physically present at a  suspected  overdose  incident,

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  provided  that  such employee is trained in the administration of opioid
     2  antagonists by a program approved  under  section  thirty-three  hundred
     3  nine of the public health law.
     4    3. Any person or entity acting reasonably and in good faith in compli-
     5  ance with this section shall not be subject to criminal, civil or admin-
     6  istrative liability solely by reason of such action.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.