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                                    553
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of A. CAHILL, RAIA -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
   BENEDETTO, COLTON, COOK, ENGLEBRIGHT, GUNTHER, ORTIZ,  PEOPLES-STOKES,
   PERRY, RIVERA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the education law, in relation to public school nurse
   staffing determinations in consultation with a nursing association
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.    Subdivision  1  of section 901 of the education law, as
 amended by section 57 of part A-1 of chapter 58 of the laws of 2006,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   1.  School  health  services,  as  defined  in subdivision two of this
 section, shall be provided by each  school  district  for  all  students
 attending  the  public schools in this state, [except in the city school
 district of the city of New York,] as provided in this  article.  School
 health  services shall include the services of a registered professional
 nurse[, if one is employed,] and shall also include such services as may
 be rendered as provided in this article in examining  students  for  the
 existence  of  disease or disability and in testing the eyes and ears of
 such students.
   § 2. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 902 of the education law,
 as amended by chapter 501 of the laws of 2005, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   b.  Any  such board or trustees [may] OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT OR BOARD
 OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL employ  [one  or  more  school
 nurses,  who  shall  be registered professional nurses, as well as other
 health professionals, as may be  required.]  A  MINIMUM  OF  ONE  SCHOOL
 NURSE,  WHO  SHALL  BE  A  REGISTERED PROFESSIONAL NURSE, IN EACH SCHOOL
 BUILDING.  ANY SUCH BOARD OR TRUSTEES OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT  OR  BOARD
 OF  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATIONAL  SERVICES  MAY  EMPLOY OTHER HEALTH PROFES-
 SIONALS, AS MAY BE REQUIRED. Such  registered  professional  nurses  and
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 other  health  professionals  shall  aid  the  director of school health
 services of the district and shall perform such duties, including health
 instruction for the benefit of the public schools as may  be  prescribed
 by  such board or trustees OR BOARD OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES,
 in compliance with each such health professional's practice act.
   § 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.