Relates to instructional tools and materials for school districts and libraries to assist in the education and awareness program to protect children from lyme disease and tick-borne infections.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5804--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
June 3, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. SERINO, AMEDORE, BONACIC, FARLEY, LARKIN, LAVALLE,
LITTLE, MARCHIONE, NOZZOLIO, O'MARA, RITCHIE -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Educa-
tion -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with
Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to an education and
awareness program on tick identification and protection
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 55 to read as follows:
3 55. The commissioner, in collaboration with the commissioner of health
4 and the commissioner of environmental conservation shall develop
5 instructional tools and materials for school districts and libraries to
6 assist in the education and awareness program to protect children from
7 lyme disease and tick-borne infections. Resources and materials shall be
8 age-appropriate for school-age students and provide information on the
9 identification of ticks, recommended procedures for safe tick removal
10 and best practices to provide protection from ticks. Such materials may
11 include but not be limited to video productions, pamphlets, and demon-
12 stration programs to illustrate the various sizes of ticks before and
13 after it has engorged to assist with the identification of a tick and
14 the reaction on the skin that may occur as a result of a tick bite.
15 Materials and instructional tools to advance and promote education
16 awareness on tick identification and protection shall be made available
17 to school districts and libraries upon request at no charge.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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