S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 8385 I N S E N A T E June 28, 2010 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring school districts to have a registered professional nurse in each school THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 902 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 501 of the laws of 2005, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 b. [Any] EVERY such board or trustees [may] SHALL employ [one or more] 5 school nurses, who shall be registered professional nurses, as well as 6 other health professionals, as may be required. Such registered profes- 7 sional nurses and other health professionals shall aid the director of 8 school health services of the district and shall perform such duties, 9 including health instruction for the benefit of the public schools as 10 may be prescribed by such board or trustees, in compliance with each 11 such health professional's practice act. A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL 12 NURSE SHALL BE REQUIRED TO BE ON THE PREMISES DURING SCHOOL HOURS AT 13 EACH SCHOOL WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. 14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next 15 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. LBD04302-03-0