Bill Text: NY S07707 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the treatment of students diagnosed with epilepsy by school personnel in certain schools; allows for diastat to be administered by trained unlicensed personnel in emergency situations.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-12 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S07707 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S07707-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7707
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 12, 2016
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        Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- 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  treatment  of
          students  diagnosed  with  epilepsy  by  school  personnel  in certain
          schools
          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 902-c
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 902-c. Treatment of students  diagnosed  with  epilepsy  by  trained
     4  school  personnel in certain schools. 1. The board of education or trus-
     5  tees of each  school  district  and  board  of  cooperative  educational
     6  services  and  nonpublic  schools that have one or more school locations
     7  with less than one hundred students,  shall  permit  trained  unlicensed
     8  individuals to administer diastat in emergency situations to individuals
     9  diagnosed  with epilepsy, where an appropriately licensed health profes-
    10  sional is not available, to pupils who have the written permission of  a
    11  physician or other duly authorized health care provider for the adminis-
    12  tration  of  diastat,  along  with  written parental consent, during the
    13  school day on school property and at any school function as  such  terms
    14  are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of section eleven
    15  of  this chapter. Training must be provided by a physician or other duly
    16  authorized licensed health care professional in a competent  manner  and
    17  must be completed in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner in
    18  regulation.
    19    2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or
    20  their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as
    21  a  result  of  any  harm  or injury sustained by a pupil or other person
    22  caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15369-01-6