Assembly Bill A6258

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to administering asthma rescue medications and authorizing schools to have asthma rescue medications for emergency situations

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A6258 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6921
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§6527, 6909 & 916, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9689, S7766
2021-2022: A2458, S1019
2023-2024: A5432

2019-A6258 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to administering asthma rescue medications and authorizing schools to possess and administer asthma rescue medications in emergency situations to pupils with a requirement that the parent or guardian of such pupils are notified in writing of such emergency situation.

2019-A6258 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6258
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to  administering  asthma
   rescue  medications  and authorizing schools to possess and administer
   asthma rescue medications in emergency situations

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision  6  of  section  6527 of the education law is
 amended by adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   (H) ADMINISTERING ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATIONS.
   § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 6909 of the education law is amended  by
 adding a new paragraph (h) to read as follows:
   (H) ADMINISTERING ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATIONS.
   §  3.  Section  916 of the education law, as amended by chapter 423 of
 the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
   § 916. Pupils with asthma or  another  respiratory  disease  requiring
 rescue  inhaler treatment. 1. The board of education or trustees of each
 school district, INCLUDING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF  THE  CITY  OF  NEW
 YORK,  and  board of cooperative educational services shall allow pupils
 who have been diagnosed by a physician or other duly  authorized  health
 care provider with an asthmatic condition or another respiratory disease
 to carry and use a prescribed inhaler and self-administer inhaled rescue
 medications to alleviate respiratory symptoms or to prevent the onset of
 exercise  induced  asthmatic  symptoms  during  the school day on school
 property and at any school function as such terms are  defined,  respec-
 tively,  by  subdivisions one and two of section eleven of this chapter,
 with the written permission of a  physician  or  other  duly  authorized
 health  care provider, and written parental consent. The written permis-
 sion shall include an attestation by the physician or  the  health  care
 provider confirming the following: (a) the pupil is diagnosed with asth-
 ma  or  another respiratory disease for which inhaled rescue medications
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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