Bill Text: NY S00028 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires that a registered nurse be in each school when medically fragile students are in attendance or when students are at major risk of injury.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00028 Detail]
Download: New_York-2009-S00028-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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28
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2009
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Introduced by Sen. FUSCHILLO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the attendance of
certain trained health professionals in public school buildings
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 SHALL EMPLOY ONE OR MORE REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSES TO BE
6 PRESENT IN EACH SCHOOL BUILDING AT ANY TIME THAT A MEDICALLY FRAGILE
7 STUDENT IS IN ATTENDANCE OR WHEN STUDENTS ARE AT A MAJOR RISK OF PHYS-
8 ICAL INJURY, IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS PRESCRIBED BY THE COMMIS-
9 SIONER.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
11 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.
LBD00925-01-9
