Bill Text: NY A02139 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or more.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 21-5)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A02139 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02139-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2139

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
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        Introduced   by   M.   of   A.  COLTON,  WALKER,  L. ROSENTHAL,  JOYNER,
          PEOPLES-STOKES, STIRPE, MILLER, COOK, DICKENS, RIVERA, HYNDMAN, REYES,
          CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, WEPRIN, McDONOUGH, WILLIAMS -- Multi-Sponsored by  --
          M.  of  A. SIMON, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
          Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  requiring  nurses  in
          public schools

          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 such board or trustees may employ one or  more  school  nurses,
     5  who  shall  be  registered  professional nurses, as well as other health
     6  professionals, as may be required. Such registered  professional  nurses
     7  and  other  health professionals shall aid the director of school health
     8  services of the district and shall perform such duties, including health
     9  instruction for the benefit of the public schools as may  be  prescribed
    10  by  such  board or trustees, in compliance with each such health profes-
    11  sional's practice act.   Such registered  professional  nurse  shall  be
    12  required to be on the premises during school hours in any school with an
    13  enrollment of one hundred or more pupils.
    14    §  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.
                                                                   LBD04145-01-3