Bill Text: NY S02826 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs promulgation of rules and regulations concerning removal of ticks from pupils and notification to parents.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S02826 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02826-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2826

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 25, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens. SERINO, RITCHIE, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Educa-
          tion

        AN  ACT to amend the education law, in relation to rules and regulations
          concerning removal of ticks from pupils

          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 60 to read as follows:
     3    60.  The commissioner, in conjunction with the commissioner of health,
     4  shall promulgate and review as necessary rules and  regulations  related
     5  to  pupils who have a tick removed from them while receiving instruction
     6  or engaging in any school sponsored  or  related  activity.  Such  regu-
     7  lations shall include but not be limited to:
     8    (a)  Tick  removal  guidelines  for  school nurses, school physicians,
     9  teachers or employees of a  school  district  to  be  developed  by  the
    10  commissioner of health.
    11    (b)  Procedures for written notification to a parent or guardian after
    12  a tick has been   removed  from  a  pupil.  Written  notification  shall
    13  include, but not be limited to, the inclusion of informational materials
    14  developed  by  the  commissioner  of  health  about the   spread of Lyme
    15  disease and tick-borne disease, signs and symptoms of Lyme or tick-borne
    16  diseases, and recommendations for how and when to seek medical treatment
    17  if needed.
    18    (c) The development of informational materials  for  school  districts
    19  and  parents  to be   provided on the websites of the department and the
    20  department of health.
    21    The rules and regulations established  pursuant  to  this  subdivision
    22  shall  be  deemed to be the minimum standards that must be complied with
    23  by every public school relating to the removal  of ticks on pupils. Such

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07315-01-1
        S. 2826                             2

     1  rules and regulations may also be implemented by  nonpublic  schools  if
     2  they so authorize.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law.