Assembly Bill A5434

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer seizure rescue medication in schools

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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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2023-A5434 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3129
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §921, add §§902-c & 916-c, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A8049, S4650

2023-A5434 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer certain seizure rescue medication in schools, on school grounds and at school events; provides that such medicine may be left with a school health official to be used as needed.

2023-A5434 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5434
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 10, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HUNTER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Education
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the education law, in relation to allowing for unli-
   censed personnel to administer seizure rescue medication
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  921 of the education law, as
 amended by chapter 339 of the laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  The  board  of  education  or trustees of each school district and
 board of cooperative educational  services  and  nonpublic  schools  are
 authorized,  but  not obligated to have licensed registered professional
 nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians  train
 unlicensed   school  personnel  to  administer  prescribed  glucagon  or
 epinephrine auto injectors, OR ADMINISTER DIAZEPAM  OR  MIDAZOLAM  NASAL
 SPRAY  in  emergency  situations, where an appropriately licensed health
 professional is not available, to pupils who have the written permission
 of a physician or other duly authorized health  care  provider  for  the
 administration of glucagon [or], emergency epinephrine auto injector, OR
 DIAZEPAM  OR MIDAZOLAM NASAL SPRAY, along with written parental consent,
 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. Training must be provided by a physician
 or other duly authorized licensed health care professional in  a  compe-
 tent manner and must be completed in a form and manner prescribed by the
 commissioner in regulation.
   § 2. The education law is amended by adding two new sections 902-c and
 916-c to read as follows:
   §  902-C.  TREATMENT  OF  STUDENTS  DIAGNOSED  WITH EPILEPSY BY SCHOOL
 PERSONNEL. 1.   LICENSED NURSES, NURSE PRACTITIONERS, PHYSICIAN  ASSIST-
 ANTS,  OR  PHYSICIANS EMPLOYED BY  SCHOOL DISTRICTS OR BOARDS OF COOPER-
 ATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SHALL BE AUTHORIZED TO ADMINISTER  PRESCRIBED
 DIAZEPAM  OR  MIDAZOLAM  NASAL  SPRAY,  TO TEACH AN UNLICENSED PERSON TO
 ADMINISTER A DIAZEPAM OR MIDAZOLAM NASAL SPRAY TO AN INDIVIDUAL, AND  TO
 
              

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