Bill Text: NY S05916 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires New York city, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester school districts, to employ a minimum of one school nurse per school building; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate additional staffing requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S05916 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S05916-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5916 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE March 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. MARTUCCI -- 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 school nurs- es in school buildings in certain school districts 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 in New York city, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester 6 shall employ a minimum of one school nurse in each school building, with 7 additional staffing determinations promulgated by the commissioner in 8 consultation with at least one professional nursing association. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next 10 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. LBD02542-01-1
