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                                   2458
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 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.
              

                                                            LBD01190-01-1

 A. 2458                             2
 
 are prescribed to alleviate respiratory symptoms or to prevent the onset
 of exercise induced asthmatic symptoms;  and  (b)  that  the  pupil  has
 demonstrated  that  he or she can self-administer the prescribed inhaled
 rescue  medication  effectively.    The  written  permission  shall also
 include the name of the prescribed inhaled rescue medication, the  dose,
 the  times  when  the medication is to be taken, the circumstances which
 may warrant the use of the medication and the length of time  for  which
 the inhaler is prescribed. A record of such consent and permission shall
 be  maintained  in  the student's cumulative health record. In addition,
 upon the written request of a parent or person in parental relation, the
 board of education or trustees of a school district, INCLUDING THE BOARD
 OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, and board  of  cooperative  educa-
 tional services shall allow such pupils to maintain an extra such inhal-
 er  in  the  care  and  custody of a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner,
 physician assistant, or physician employed by such district, THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK, or board of cooperative educational  services,  and  shall  be
 readily  accessible to such pupil. Nothing in this section shall require
 a school district, THE CITY OF NEW YORK, or board of cooperative  educa-
 tional  services  to retain a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physi-
 cian assistant, or physician solely for the purpose of taking custody of
 a spare inhaler for the treatment of asthma  or  a  respiratory  disease
 requiring rescue medication treatment, or require that a licensed nurse,
 nurse  practitioner,  physician  assistant, or physician be available at
 all times in a school building for the purpose of taking custody of  the
 inhaler.  In addition, the medication provided by the pupil's parents or
 persons in parental relation shall be made available  to  the  pupil  as
 needed  in  accordance with the school district's, BOARD OF EDUCATION OF
 THE CITY OF NEW YORK'S, or board of  cooperative  educational  services'
 policy and the orders prescribed in the written permission of the physi-
 cian or other authorized health care provider.
   2.  (A)  SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES,
 COUNTY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXTENSION BOARDS, CHARTER  SCHOOLS,  AND
 NON-PUBLIC  ELEMENTARY  AND  SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN THIS STATE MAY PROVIDE
 AND MAINTAIN ON-SITE IN EACH INSTRUCTIONAL SCHOOL FACILITY ASTHMA RESCUE
 MEDICATIONS IN QUANTITIES AND  TYPES  DEEMED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER,  IN
 CONSULTATION  WITH  THE  COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, AND FOR THE CITY OF NEW
 YORK, THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, TO BE ADEQUATE
 TO ENSURE READY AND APPROPRIATE ACCESS FOR USE DURING EMERGENCIES.
   (B) EVERY PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF A PUPIL WHO IS ADMINISTERED SUCH ASTH-
 MA RESCUE MEDICATIONS SHALL BE NOTIFIED IN WRITING OF SUCH INCIDENT. THE
 REQUIRED CONTENT OF SUCH NOTIFICATION SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMIS-
 SIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF  HEALTH,  AND  FOR  THE
 CITY  OF  NEW  YORK, THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
 AND SHALL AT A MINIMUM INCLUDE:
   (I) A RECOMMENDATION THAT SUCH PUPIL BE EVALUATED BY  A  PHYSICIAN  OR
 OTHER  DULY  AUTHORIZED  HEALTH CARE PROVIDER TO DETERMINE IF SUCH PUPIL
 HAS AN ASTHMATIC CONDITION OR ANOTHER RESPIRATORY DISEASE; AND
   (II) A RECOMMENDATION THAT IF SUCH PUPIL IS DIAGNOSED WITH SUCH CONDI-
 TION OR DISEASE THAT THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN TAKE THE  ACTIONS  NECESSARY
 TO ENSURE THE PUPIL MAY RECEIVE ASTHMA CONTROLLER MEDICATIONS AND ASTHMA
 RESCUE  MEDICATIONS  IN  SCHOOL. IF THE PUPIL IS ABLE TO SELF-CARRY, THE
 PARENT OR GUARDIAN TAKE THE ACTIONS NECESSARY UNDER SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
 THIS  SECTION  FOR  SUCH PUPIL 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

 A. 2458                             3
 
 SUCH  TERMS  ARE  DEFINED,  RESPECTIVELY, BY SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF
 SECTION ELEVEN OF THIS CHAPTER.
   3.  A school district, INCLUDING THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK, board of cooperative educational services and/or their  agents
 or  employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as a result of
 any harm or injury sustained by  a  pupil  or  other  person  caused  by
 reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.
   §  4.  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
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

                             
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                                  2458--B
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
   to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
   2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
   and recommitted to said committee
 
 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, OR IN THE CASE OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,
 THE  CHANCELLOR  OF  THE  CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, 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 asthmat-
 ic  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, respectively, by
 subdivisions one and two of section eleven of  this  chapter,  with  the
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01190-05-2
              

 A. 2458--B                          2
 
 written  permission  of a physician or other duly authorized health care
 provider, and written parental consent.  The  written  permission  shall
 include  an  attestation  by  the  physician or the health care provider
 confirming  the  following:  (a)  the  pupil is diagnosed with asthma or
 another respiratory disease for which  inhaled  rescue  medications  are
 prescribed  to alleviate respiratory symptoms or to prevent the onset of
 exercise induced asthmatic symptoms; and (b) that the pupil  has  demon-
 strated that he or she can self-administer the prescribed inhaled rescue
 medication  effectively.   The written permission shall also include the
 name of the prescribed inhaled rescue medication, the  dose,  the  times
 when  the medication is to be taken, the circumstances which may warrant
 the use of the medication and the length of time for which  the  inhaler
 is  prescribed.  A  record of such consent and permission shall be main-
 tained in the student's cumulative health record. In addition, upon  the
 written request of a parent or person in parental relation, the board of
 education  or  trustees of a school district, OR IN THE CASE OF THE CITY
 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, THE CHANCELLOR, and  board  of  cooperative
 educational  services  shall allow such pupils to maintain an extra such
 inhaler in the care and custody of a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner,
 physician assistant, or physician employed by such district or board  of
 cooperative  educational  services,  and  shall be readily accessible to
 such pupil. Nothing in this section shall require a school  district  or
 board  of  cooperative  educational services to retain a licensed nurse,
 nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or  physician  solely  for  the
 purpose of taking custody of a spare inhaler for the treatment of asthma
 or  a  respiratory  disease  requiring  rescue  medication treatment, or
 require that a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physician  assistant,
 or  physician  be  available  at  all times in a school building for the
 purpose of taking custody of the inhaler. In  addition,  the  medication
 provided by the pupil's parents or persons in parental relation shall be
 made  available  to  the  pupil  as needed in accordance with the school
 district's, or board of cooperative educational services' policy and the
 orders prescribed in the written permission of the  physician  or  other
 authorized health care provider.
   2.  (A) THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OR TRUSTEES OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT, OR
 IN THE CASE OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, THE  CHANCELLOR  OF
 THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
 IN  THIS  STATE  MAY  PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON-SITE IN EACH INSTRUCTIONAL
 SCHOOL FACILITY ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATIONS IN QUANTITIES AND TYPES DEEMED
 BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  HEALTH,
 AND  FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK, TO BE ADEQUATE TO ENSURE  READY  AND  APPROPRIATE  ACCESS  FOR
 SUPERVISED USE BY A REGISTERED NURSE DURING EMERGENCIES.  SUCH EMERGENCY
 USE  OF  ASTHMA  RESCUE  MEDICATION  SHALL  ONLY  BE USED IF THE PUPIL'S
 PRESCRIBED ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATION OR  SPARE  INHALER  IS  NOT  READILY
 ACCESSIBLE OR IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS WHERE A PUPIL DOES NOT HAVE ACCESS
 TO ANY ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATION.
   (B) EVERY PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF A PUPIL WHO IS ADMINISTERED SUCH ASTH-
 MA RESCUE MEDICATIONS SHALL BE NOTIFIED IN WRITING OF SUCH INCIDENT. THE
 REQUIRED CONTENT OF SUCH NOTIFICATION SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMIS-
 SIONER,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH, AND FOR THE
 CITY OF NEW YORK, THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OF THE CITY  OF  NEW  YORK,
 AND SHALL AT A MINIMUM INCLUDE:
   (I)  A  RECOMMENDATION  THAT SUCH PUPIL BE EVALUATED BY A PHYSICIAN OR
 OTHER DULY AUTHORIZED HEALTH CARE PROVIDER TO DETERMINE  IF  SUCH  PUPIL
 HAS AN ASTHMATIC CONDITION OR ANOTHER RESPIRATORY DISEASE; AND
 A. 2458--B                          3
 
   (II) A RECOMMENDATION THAT IF SUCH PUPIL IS DIAGNOSED WITH SUCH CONDI-
 TION  OR  DISEASE THAT THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN TAKE THE ACTIONS NECESSARY
 TO ENSURE THE PUPIL MAY RECEIVE ASTHMA CONTROLLER MEDICATIONS AND ASTHMA
 RESCUE MEDICATIONS IN SCHOOL AND DEVELOPS AN ASTHMA ACTION PLAN.  IF THE
 PUPIL  IS  ABLE  TO  SELF-CARRY, THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN TAKE THE ACTIONS
 NECESSARY UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION FOR SUCH PUPIL TO  CARRY
 AND  USE A PRESCRIBED INHALER AND SELF-ADMINISTER INHALED RESCUE MEDICA-
 TIONS TO ALLEVIATE RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS OR TO PREVENT THE ONSET OF EXER-
 CISE INDUCED ASTHMATIC SYMPTOMS 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.
   3. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or
 their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as
 a  result  of  any  harm  or injury sustained by a pupil or other person
 caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.
   § 4. 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
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

                             
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                                  2458--C
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 19, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on  Education  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted  as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted
   to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.
   2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended
   and  recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said commit-
   tee with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and  recommitted  to
   said committee
 
 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 (i) to read as follows:
   (I) ADMINISTERING ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATIONS.
   §  2. Subdivision 4 of section 6909 of the education law is amended by
 adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows:
   (I) 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, OR IN THE CASE OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK,
 THE  CHANCELLOR  OF  THE  CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, 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 asthmat-
 ic  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

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01190-07-2
              

 A. 2458--C                          2
 
 at  any  school  function  as  such  terms are defined, respectively, 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 permission shall
 include an attestation by the physician  or  the  health  care  provider
 confirming  the  following:  (a)  the  pupil is diagnosed with asthma or
 another respiratory disease for which  inhaled  rescue  medications  are
 prescribed  to alleviate respiratory symptoms or to prevent the onset of
 exercise induced asthmatic symptoms; and (b) that the pupil  has  demon-
 strated that he or she can self-administer the prescribed inhaled rescue
 medication  effectively.   The written permission shall also include the
 name of the prescribed inhaled rescue medication, the  dose,  the  times
 when  the medication is to be taken, the circumstances which may warrant
 the use of the medication and the length of time for which  the  inhaler
 is  prescribed.  A  record of such consent and permission shall be main-
 tained in the student's cumulative health record. In addition, upon  the
 written request of a parent or person in parental relation, the board of
 education  or  trustees of a school district, OR IN THE CASE OF THE CITY
 SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, THE CHANCELLOR, and  board  of  cooperative
 educational  services  shall allow such pupils to maintain an extra such
 inhaler in the care and custody of a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner,
 physician assistant, or physician employed by such district or board  of
 cooperative  educational  services,  and  shall be readily accessible to
 such pupil. Nothing in this section shall require a school  district  or
 board  of  cooperative  educational services to retain a licensed nurse,
 nurse practitioner, physician assistant, or  physician  solely  for  the
 purpose of taking custody of a spare inhaler for the treatment of asthma
 or  a  respiratory  disease  requiring  rescue  medication treatment, or
 require that a licensed nurse, nurse practitioner, physician  assistant,
 or  physician  be  available  at  all times in a school building for the
 purpose of taking custody of the inhaler. In  addition,  the  medication
 provided by the pupil's parents or persons in parental relation shall be
 made  available  to  the  pupil  as needed in accordance with the school
 district's, or board of cooperative educational services' policy and the
 orders prescribed in the written permission of the  physician  or  other
 authorized health care provider.
   2.  (A) THE BOARD OF EDUCATION OR TRUSTEES OF EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT, OR
 IN THE CASE OF THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, THE  CHANCELLOR  OF
 THE CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, AND BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
 IN  THIS  STATE  MAY  PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON-SITE IN EACH INSTRUCTIONAL
 SCHOOL FACILITY ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATIONS IN QUANTITIES AND TYPES DEEMED
 BY THE COMMISSIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE  COMMISSIONER  OF  HEALTH,
 AND  FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK, THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF
 NEW YORK, TO BE ADEQUATE TO ENSURE  READY  AND  APPROPRIATE  ACCESS  FOR
 SUPERVISED USE BY A REGISTERED NURSE, WHERE PRACTICABLE, DURING EMERGEN-
 CIES.  SUCH EMERGENCY USE OF ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATION SHALL ONLY BE USED
 IF  THE  PUPIL'S PRESCRIBED ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATION OR SPARE INHALER IS
 NOT READILY ACCESSIBLE OR IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS WHERE A PUPIL DOES NOT
 HAVE ACCESS TO ANY ASTHMA RESCUE MEDICATION.
   (B) EVERY PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF A PUPIL WHO IS ADMINISTERED SUCH ASTH-
 MA RESCUE MEDICATIONS SHALL BE NOTIFIED IN WRITING OF SUCH INCIDENT. THE
 REQUIRED CONTENT OF SUCH NOTIFICATION SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMIS-
 SIONER, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF  HEALTH,  AND  FOR  THE
 CITY  OF  NEW  YORK, THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK,
 AND SHALL AT A MINIMUM INCLUDE:
 A. 2458--C                          3
 
   (I) A RECOMMENDATION THAT SUCH PUPIL BE EVALUATED BY  A  PHYSICIAN  OR
 OTHER  DULY  AUTHORIZED  HEALTH CARE PROVIDER TO DETERMINE IF SUCH PUPIL
 HAS AN ASTHMATIC CONDITION OR ANOTHER RESPIRATORY DISEASE; AND
   (II) A RECOMMENDATION THAT IF SUCH PUPIL IS DIAGNOSED WITH SUCH CONDI-
 TION  OR  DISEASE THAT THE PARENT OR GUARDIAN TAKE THE ACTIONS NECESSARY
 TO ENSURE THE PUPIL MAY RECEIVE ASTHMA CONTROLLER MEDICATIONS AND ASTHMA
 RESCUE MEDICATIONS IN SCHOOL AND DEVELOPS AN ASTHMA ACTION PLAN.  IF THE
 PUPIL IS ABLE TO SELF-CARRY, THE PARENT OR  GUARDIAN  TAKE  THE  ACTIONS
 NECESSARY  UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION FOR SUCH PUPIL TO CARRY
 AND USE A PRESCRIBED INHALER AND SELF-ADMINISTER INHALED RESCUE  MEDICA-
 TIONS TO ALLEVIATE RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS OR TO PREVENT THE ONSET OF EXER-
 CISE INDUCED ASTHMATIC SYMPTOMS 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.
   3. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or
 their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as
 a result of any harm or injury sustained by  a  pupil  or  other  person
 caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.
   §  4.  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
 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.