Bill Text: NY S08641 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Allows camp operators and employees to administer medications and treatment to children, under parent direction and authorization.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-26 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S08641 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08641-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8641

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 26, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBB  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
          to authorizing camp operators and employees to administer  medications
          and treatment to children under certain circumstances

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 1394 of the public health law is amended by  adding
     2  a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    10.  Each  children's  overnight,  summer day, or traveling summer day
     4  camp, may authorize the operator or employees of such camp to administer
     5  medications or treatment pursuant to section sixty-nine hundred eight of
     6  the education law and in  accordance  with  the  rules  and  regulations
     7  promulgated by the commissioner.
     8    §  2.  Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 6908 of the education
     9  law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
    10    (vi) the administration of medications or treatment  by  operators  or
    11  employees  of  children's  overnight camp, summer day camp and traveling
    12  summer day camp where such operator or employees are  acting  under  the
    13  direction  and  authority  of a parent of a child, legal guardian, legal
    14  custodian, or an adult in whose care a child has been entrusted and  who
    15  has  been authorized by the parent to consent to any health care for the
    16  child and in compliance with regulations promulgated by  the  department
    17  of health pertaining to the administration of medications and treatment;
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11482-01-3