STATE OF NEW YORK
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149--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, WEPRIN, COLTON -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Health -- recommitted to the Committee on
Health in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
to epinephrine in schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 921-a of the education law, as
2 amended by chapter 502 of the laws of 2025, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, coun-
5 ty vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-
6 public elementary and secondary schools in this state [may] shall
7 provide and maintain on-site in each instructional school facility
8 epinephrine devices in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner,
9 in consultation with the commissioner of health, to be adequate to
10 ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies to any
11 student or staff having anaphylactic symptoms whether or not there is a
12 previous history of severe allergic reaction.
13 § 2. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 2 of section 3000-c of the public
14 health law, as amended by chapter 502 of the laws of 2025, is amended to
15 read as follows:
16 (f) Nothing in this section shall require any eligible person or enti-
17 ty to acquire, possess, store, make available, or administer an epineph-
18 rine device, except as provided for in subdivision five-e of section two
19 hundred twenty-five of this chapter and subdivision one of section nine
20 hundred twenty-one-a of the education law.
21 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00950-02-6
