Bill Text: NY S03772 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists during all school hours and after school activities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03772 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S03772-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3772 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 requiring high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 922 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding any other law, all high schools shall acquire and 4 possess an opioid antagonist for emergency treatment of a person appear- 5 ing to experience an opioid-related overdose. High schools shall desig- 6 nate at least one employee who has completed a training course in the 7 use of opioid antagonists approved under section three thousand three 8 hundred nine of the public health law to be responsible for the storage, 9 maintenance, control, and general oversight of the opioid antagonist. 10 There shall be a designated employee on school grounds during all school 11 hours and after school activities to administer such opioid antagonists. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09248-01-9
