Bill Text: NY A09777 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 9777

Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to establish uniform statewide protocols for diapering and toileting of students in public schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-30 - print number 9777a [A09777 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09777-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         9777--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 9, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring the depart-
          ment of education to develop uniform statewide protocols for diapering
          and toileting in public schools

          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 62 to read as follows:
     3    62.  a.  The  commissioner  shall  promulgate rules and regulations to
     4  establish uniform statewide protocols for  diapering  and  toileting  of
     5  students  in  public  schools.  Such  protocols shall include but not be
     6  limited to: requiring schools to provide students and  staff  with  safe
     7  and accessible facilities for diapering and toileting; requiring schools
     8  to  provide  the  proper  equipment  and supplies to maintain a safe and
     9  sanitary area for diapering and toileting; and defining basic procedures
    10  to promote a safe and healthy environment.
    11    b. For the purposes of this subdivision, "school" shall be  deemed  to
    12  include  a  school  district, public school, board of cooperative educa-
    13  tional services, special act school district as defined in section  four
    14  thousand  one  of  this  chapter,  approved  preschool special education
    15  program pursuant to section forty-four  hundred  ten  of  this  chapter,
    16  approved private residential or non-residential school for the education
    17  of  students  with  disabilities  including  private schools established
    18  under chapter eight hundred fifty-three of the laws of nineteen  hundred
    19  seventy-six,  and  a  state-supported  school in accordance with article
    20  eighty-five of this chapter.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect eighteen months after  it  shall  have
    22  become  a  law.  Effective  immediately,  the addition, amendment and/or
    23  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    24  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    25  on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15081-04-4