Bill Text: NY A01497 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires certain school districts, New York City, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester, to employ a minimum of one school nurse per school building; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate additional staffing requirements.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-2)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to education [A01497 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A01497-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1497
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. GUNTHER, CLARK, PERRY -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. FARRELL, GOTTFRIED, McDONOUGH -- read once and referred 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 S 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.
LBD02458-01-3
