Provides for notice of a bedbug infestation in a public school to the guardians of affected students in the school; authorizes the declaration a bedbug infestation in a discrete area of a school, and to limit the notification to parents, persons in parental relationship and guardians of students of affected students in such area; requires notification information to be developed in consultation with city agencies.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4231
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 24, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to persons required to be
notified of bedbug infestations in certain public schools; and to
amend chapter 426 of the laws of 2010, amending the education law
relating to directing a city school district having a population of
one million or more to provide notice of bedbug infestations in public
schools, in relation to the effective date thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 920 of the education law,
2 as added by chapter 426 of the laws of 2010, are amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. In a city school district having a population of one million or
5 more inhabitants, the principal of each public school shall provide
6 immediate notification to [all] parents [or], persons in parental
7 relation or guardians of potentially affected students attending the
8 school, disclosing a finding relating to the infestation of bedbugs
9 (Cimex lectularius) in such school; provided, however, that if pursuant
10 to regulations of the commissioner it is determined that any infestation
11 is contained within a discrete area, the principal may limit such
12 notification to parents, persons in parental relationship or guardians
13 of all potentially affected students within such area, and shall advise
14 the parents' association of the scope of such notification.
15 2. Along with the notification required pursuant to subdivision one of
16 this section, the principal of such public school shall also include
17 information regarding proper procedures to prevent further infestations
18 at the school and to prevent the transfer of bedbugs from the school to
19 the residences of students. Such information [may] shall be developed by
20 the board of education in consultation with other city agencies and
21 shall be available in various languages as deemed necessary.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD10016-01-1
S. 4231 2
1 § 2. Section 2 of chapter 426 of the laws of 2010, amending the educa-
2 tion law relating to directing a city school district having a popu-
3 lation of one million or more to provide notice of bedbug infestations
4 in public schools, is amended to read as follows:
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
6 the date on which it shall have become a law; provided, however that any
7 rules and regulations of the commissioner of education necessary to
8 implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are author-
9 ized and directed to be completed on or before such date.
10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately, except that section one
11 of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
12 chapter 426 of the laws of 2010 takes effect.
