NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A3185
SPONSOR: Colton (MS) TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the education law, in relation to requiring nurses in
public schools
PURPOSE:
Requires a school nurse to be on the premises during school hours in any
school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or more.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Paragraph b of subdivision 1 of section 902 of the education law is
amended to require a school nurse to be on the premises during school
hours in any school having an enrollment of 100 pupils or more. 356 of
the public health law is amended to require a nurse to be on the prem-
ises during school hours in any private school in a city with a popu-
lation of one million or more with an enrollment of 100 or more pupils.
JUSTIFICATION:
Schools should have nurses available on premises in the event of a
medical emergency and to provide standard health care for students.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2024: A.2139/Education
2022: A.4079/Education
2020: A.4926/Education
2018: A.3855/Education
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
NONE.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of September next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3185
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BENDETT,
COOK, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, EPSTEIN, FORREST, GALLAHAN, HYNDMAN, McDONOUGH,
MILLER, PEOPLES-STOKES, RAGA, REYES, RIVERA, ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT,
SIMON, STIRPE, WALKER, WEPRIN, WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring nurses in
public schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 902 of the educa-
2 tion law, as amended by chapter 501 of the laws of 2005, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 b. Any such board or trustees may employ one or more school nurses,
5 who shall be registered professional nurses, as well as other health
6 professionals, as may be required. Such registered professional nurses
7 and other health professionals shall aid the director of school health
8 services of the district and shall perform such duties, including health
9 instruction for the benefit of the public schools as may be prescribed
10 by such board or trustees, in compliance with each such health profes-
11 sional's practice act. Such registered professional nurse shall be
12 required to be on the premises during school hours in any school with an
13 enrollment of one hundred or more pupils.
14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
15 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06310-01-5
