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                                   6520
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 9, 2017
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, HARRIS, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI,
   CROUCH, LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.  GALEF,
   LOPEZ,  ORTIZ, 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:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 902-a of  the  education  law,  as
 added by chapter 423 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   1.  Licensed  nurses,  nurse  practitioners,  physician assistants, or
 physicians employed by school districts or boards of cooperative  educa-
 tional  services are authorized to calculate prescribed insulin dosages,
 administer prescribed insulin (WHICH MAY INCLUDE ADJUSTING THE DOSAGE OF
 THE INSULIN UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE PRESCRIBER OR INSTRUCTIONS  FROM
 THE  PARENT  OR PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATIONSHIP WHERE EXPLICITLY AUTHOR-
 IZED BY THE PRESCRIBER), program the prescribed insulin pump, refill the
 reservoir  in  the  insulin  pump,  change  the  infusion  site,  inject
 prescribed  glucagon,  teach an unlicensed person to administer glucagon
 to an individual, and perform other authorized services pursuant to  the
 scope  of  practice  of the licensed individual under title VIII of this
 chapter, to pupils who have received written permission by  a  physician
 or  other licensed health care provider, and written parental consent to
 carry and use insulin and glucagon  pursuant  to  section  nine  hundred
 sixteen-b  of this article, during the school day on school property and
 at any school function as  such  terms  are  defined,  respectively,  by
 subdivisions  one  and two of section eleven of this chapter. Nothing in
 this  section  shall  authorize  unlicensed  persons  to  perform  these
 services  except  as otherwise permitted by section nine hundred twenty-
 one of this article, AS ADDED BY CHAPTER FOUR  HUNDRED  TWENTY-THREE  OF
 THE LAWS OF TWO THOUSAND FOURTEEN.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD09468-02-7

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   §  2.  Section  6909  of  the education law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 9 to read as follows:
   9. A REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE, WHEN ADMINISTERING INSULIN UNDER A
 PRESCRIPTION,  MAY  VARY  THE INSULIN DOSAGE UNDER INSTRUCTIONS FROM THE
 PARENT OR PERSON IN PARENTAL RELATIONSHIP WHERE EXPLICITLY AUTHORIZED BY
 THE PRESCRIBER.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.