Bill Text: NY A00596 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to when school personnel may adjust a student's dosage of insulin: under instructions from the prescriber or instructions from the parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by the prescriber.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-24 - enacting clause stricken [A00596 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00596-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           596

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, McDONOUGH -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, WALSH -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to when school  personnel
          may adjust a student's dosage of insulin

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 902-a of  the  education  law,  as
     2  added by chapter 423 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     3    1.  Licensed  nurses,  nurse  practitioners,  physician assistants, or
     4  physicians employed by school districts or boards of cooperative  educa-
     5  tional  services are authorized to calculate prescribed insulin dosages,
     6  administer prescribed insulin (which may include adjusting the dosage of
     7  the insulin under instructions from the prescriber or instructions  from
     8  the  parent  or person in parental relationship where explicitly author-
     9  ized by the prescriber), program the prescribed insulin pump, refill the
    10  reservoir  in  the  insulin  pump,  change  the  infusion  site,  inject
    11  prescribed  glucagon,  teach an unlicensed person to administer glucagon
    12  to an individual, and perform other authorized services pursuant to  the
    13  scope  of  practice  of the licensed individual under title VIII of this
    14  chapter, to pupils who have received written permission by  a  physician
    15  or  other licensed health care provider, and written parental consent to
    16  carry and use insulin and glucagon  pursuant  to  section  nine  hundred
    17  sixteen-b  of this article, during the school day on school property and
    18  at any school function as  such  terms  are  defined,  respectively,  by
    19  subdivisions  one  and two of section eleven of this chapter. Nothing in
    20  this  section  shall  authorize  unlicensed  persons  to  perform  these
    21  services  except  as otherwise permitted by section nine hundred twenty-
    22  one of this article.
    23    § 2. Section 6909 of the education law is  amended  by  adding  a  new
    24  subdivision 11 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00211-01-3
        A. 596                              2

     1    11.  A registered professional nurse, when administering insulin under
     2  a prescription, may vary the insulin dosage under instructions from  the
     3  parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by
     4  the prescriber.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.