NY State Senate Bill 2017-S8601

Senate Bill S8601

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring nonpublic schools to follow the same rules and regulations as public schools regarding a pupil who suffers a concussion

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- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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2017-S8601 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A9831
Current Committee:: Senate Education
Law Section:: Education Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §305, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2019-2020: S3058, A5887
2021-2022: S973, A8425

2017-S8601 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring nonpublic schools to follow the same rules and regulations as public schools regarding a pupil who suffers a concussion, regarding training to recognize the symptoms of a concussion, information to be provided to the parent or guardian of such pupil and the amount of time such pupil shall wait before resuming an athletic activity.

2017-S8601 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S8601

SPONSOR: HANNON
 
TITLE OF BILL:  An act to amend the education law, in relation to
requiring nonpublic schools to follow the same rules and regulations as
public schools regarding a pupil who suffers a concussion

 
PURPOSE:

To amend the Education Law, in relation to standardizing the Concussion
Management and Awareness Act so that it applied to both public schools
and non-public schools, requiring non-public schools to abide by concus-
sion protocol.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one of the bill amends the Education Law by including non-public
schools in concussion protocol.

Section two of the bill establishes the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

In 2011, the New York State legislature passed the Concussion Management
and Awareness Act (Chapter 496 of 2011), a law that directed the commis-
sioners of education and health to establish rules and regulations for
the treatment and monitoring of public school students suffering from
concussions. This law, which went into effect July 1, 2012, required
that any students that have or may have suffered a concussion be removed
from athletic activities, and that such students only return to athlet-
ics after authorization from a licensed physician.

This legislation expands upon the 2011 law to prevent further harm or
death in students suffering from concussions, by requiring non-public
schools to abide by the Concussion Management and Awareness Act.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date
on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addi-
tion, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for
the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized and
directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

2017-S8601 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8601
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation  to  requiring  nonpublic
   schools  to  follow  the  same rules and regulations as public schools
   regarding a pupil who suffers a concussion
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Paragraph b of subdivision 42 of section 305 of the educa-
 tion law, as added by chapter 496 of the laws of  2011,  is  amended  to
 read as follows:
   b.  The rules and regulations established pursuant to this subdivision
 shall be deemed to be the minimum standards that must be  complied  with
 by  every  public school AND NONPUBLIC SCHOOL relating to mild traumatic
 brain injuries. [Such rules and regulations may also be  implemented  by
 nonpublic  schools  if  they  so authorize.] Nothing in this subdivision
 shall prohibit any public school or nonpublic school from  adopting  and
 implementing more stringent standards.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
 for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
 and directed to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14567-01-8

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