A00840 Summary:

BILL NOA00840A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S05500-A
 
SPONSOROrtiz (MS)
 
COSPNSRGalef, Boyland, Rosenthal
 
MLTSPNSRHooper, Jacobs, McEneny, Perry, Rivera J, Weisenberg, Wright
 
Add S921, Ed L
 
Authorizes students to carry epinephrine and an epinephrine auto-injector in school.
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A00840 Actions:

BILL NOA00840A
 
01/05/2011referred to education
01/04/2012referred to education
06/15/2012amend and recommit to education
06/15/2012print number 840a
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A00840 Floor Votes:

There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
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A00840 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         840--A
 
                               2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 5, 2011
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. ORTIZ, GALEF, BOYLAND, ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Spon-
          sored by -- M. of A. HOOPER, JACOBS, McENENY, PERRY, J. RIVERA,  WEIS-
          ENBERG, WRIGHT -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
          -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assem-

          bly  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 the use of epinephrine
          by students
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 921 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  921.  Pupils afflicted with severe food or other allergies. 1.  The
     4  board of education or trustees of each  school  district  and  board  of
     5  cooperative  educational services shall allow pupils who have been diag-
     6  nosed by a physician or other duly authorized health care provider  with
     7  a  severe  food or other allergy to carry and use the prescribed medica-

     8  tion epinephrine and a device to self-administer epinephrine, such as an
     9  epinephrine auto-injector, during the school day and during school spon-
    10  sored activities that occur after the regular school day or  outside  of
    11  the  school,  with  the  written permission of a physician or other duly
    12  authorized health care provider, and written parental consent, based  on
    13  such  physician's or provider's determination that such pupil is subject
    14  to allergic attacks severe enough to debilitate such pupil. A record  of
    15  such permission shall be maintained in the school office.
    16    2.  Notwithstanding  any other provision of law, rule or regulation to
    17  the contrary no party shall have a cause of action for  personal  injury

    18  or any other claim based on the use of an epinephrine auto-injector by a
    19  school district or board of cooperative educational services, its agent,
    20  a  school officer, employee or volunteer at the school or a school-spon-
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03642-02-2

        A. 840--A                           2
 
     1  sored function, provided that such use was performed reasonably  and  in
     2  good faith.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
     4  it shall have become a law; provided, however, that effective immediate-
     5  ly  the  commissioner of education is authorized to promulgate rules and

     6  regulations for the implementation of this act on such effective date.
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