Assembly Bill A10406

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays in or around automated external defibrillator cabinets

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee


  • 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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2023-A10406 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §922, Ed L; amd §§3309 & 3000-b, Pub Health L

2023-A10406 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store naloxone nasal sprays in or around automated external defibrillator cabinets.

2023-A10406 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10406
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Wallace) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
   to requiring certain entities to stock opioid antagonists and to store
   naloxone nasal sprays in automated external defibrillator cabinets

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Section 922 of the education law, as amended by chapter 68
 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
   §  922.  Opioid  overdose  prevention.  1.  School  districts,  public
 libraries, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational
 education  and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elemen-
 tary and secondary schools in this state [may] SHALL provide  and  main-
 tain  on-site  in  each instructional school facility or library, opioid
 antagonists, as defined in section three thousand three hundred nine  of
 the public health law, in quantities and types deemed by the commission-
 er,  in  consultation with the commissioner of health, to be adequate to
 ensure ready and appropriate access for use during  emergencies  to  any
 student,  individual  on  library  premises or staff suspected of having
 opioid overdose whether or not there is a  previous  history  of  opioid
 abuse.    SUCH  OPIOID ANTAGONISTS SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE LIMITED TO,
 NALOXONE NASAL SPRAYS LOCATED WITH EVERY AUTOMATED EXTERNAL  DEFIBRILLA-
 TOR,  AS  DEFINED  IN  PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION THREE
 THOUSAND-B OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, PROVIDED  AND  MAINTAINED  BY  SUCH
 SCHOOL OR INSTITUTION.
   2.  School  districts,  public libraries, boards of cooperative educa-
 tional services, county vocational education and extension boards, char-
 ter schools, and non-public elementary and  secondary  schools  in  this
 state [may elect to] SHALL participate as an opioid antagonist recipient
 and  any person employed by any such entity [that has elected to partic-
 ipate] may administer an opioid antagonist in the event of an emergency,
 provided that such person shall have been trained by a program  approved
 under  section  three  thousand  three hundred nine of the public health
 law. Any school district, public library, board  of  cooperative  educa-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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