STATE OF NEW YORK
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8977--B
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, CASTELLI, CYMBROWITZ, PAULIN, WEPRIN,
GOLDFEDER, CASTRO, ABINANTI -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GABRYS-
ZAK, GIBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- again reported from said committee
with amendments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said
committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring newly certi-
fied teachers to be competent in the use of an epinephrine auto-injec-
tor
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 3001-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3001-e. Epinephrine auto-injector instruction mandatory for teach-
4 ers. The commissioner shall prescribe regulations requiring that all
5 persons certified as a classroom teacher, teaching assistant, pupil
6 personnel service professional, school administrator or supervisor or
7 superintendent of schools, shall, in addition to all the other certif-
8 ication or licensing requirements, complete, no later than six months
9 after becoming certified, a course or training in the use of an epineph-
10 rine auto-injector and shall provide the department with documentation
11 showing that the applicant has successfully completed such training.
12 The commissioner shall prescribe regulations requiring that teacher
13 preparation institutions include instruction in the administration of an
14 epinephrine auto-injector commencing in the two thousand thirteen--two
15 thousand fourteen academic year. Such training shall be limited to the
16 use of an epinephrine auto-injector in emergency situations where a
17 registered nurse or other licensed health care worker is not available.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to class-
19 room teachers, teaching assistants, pupil personnel service profes-
20 sionals, school administrators and supervisors or superintendents of
21 schools certified on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11717-04-2
