Bill Text: NY A06381 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists during all school hours and after school activities.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A06381 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06381-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6381

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 5, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring high schools
          to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists

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

     1    Section 1. Section 922 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 3 to read as follows:
     3    3. Notwithstanding any other law, all high schools shall  acquire  and
     4  possess an opioid antagonist for emergency treatment of a person appear-
     5  ing  to experience an opioid-related overdose. High schools shall desig-
     6  nate at least one employee who has completed a training  course  in  the
     7  use  of  opioid  antagonists approved under section three thousand three
     8  hundred nine of the public health law to be responsible for the storage,
     9  maintenance, control, and general oversight of  the  opioid  antagonist.
    10  There shall be a designated employee on school grounds during all school
    11  hours and after school activities to administer such opioid antagonists.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04226-01-3