Bill Text: NY A10634 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes schools to possess and administer naloxone in emergency situations to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacological effects of an opioid in the human body.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-07-06 - referred to education [A10634 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A10634-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10634

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 6, 2022
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Davila) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to authorizing schools to
          possess and administer naloxone in emergency situations

          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 921-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 921-b. On-site naloxone. 1. School districts, boards of  cooperative
     4  educational  services, county vocational education and extension boards,
     5  charter schools, and non-public elementary and secondary schools in this
     6  state may provide and maintain  on-site  in  each  instructional  school
     7  facility naloxone in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner, in
     8  consultation  with  the commissioner of health, to be adequate to ensure
     9  ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies to  any  student
    10  or staff to negate or neutralize, in whole or in part, the pharmacologi-
    11  cal effects of an opioid in the human body.
    12    2. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, coun-
    13  ty  vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-
    14  public elementary and  secondary  schools  in  this  state,  any  person
    15  employed  by  any  such  entity,  or employed by a contractor of such an
    16  entity while performing services for the entity may administer  naloxone
    17  in the event of an emergency.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    19  it  shall  have become a law. Effective immediately, the commissioner of
    20  health, in consultation with the commissioner of education, may  promul-
    21  gate  any  rule or regulation necessary for the timely implementation of
    22  this act on its effective date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15651-01-2