Bill Text: NY A09777 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to establish uniform statewide protocols for diapering and toileting of students in public schools.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09777 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A09777-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to establish uniform statewide protocols for diapering and toileting of students in public schools.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-2)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09777 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A09777-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9777 IN ASSEMBLY April 9, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education 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 61 to read as follows: 3 61. 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, but not be limited to, a school district, public school, board 13 of cooperative educational services, special act school district as 14 defined in section four thousand one of this chapter, approved preschool 15 special education program pursuant to section forty-four hundred ten of 16 this chapter, approved private residential or non-residential school for 17 the education of students with disabilities including private schools 18 established under chapter eight hundred fifty-three of the laws of nine- 19 teen hundred seventy-six, and a state-supported school in accordance 20 with article 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. LBD15081-01-4