STATE OF NEW YORK
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762
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Higher Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all
college-owned or college-operated housing to provide and maintain an
opioid antagonist onsite
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 6438-a of the education law, as
2 added by chapter 580 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Every campus of the state university of New York and every campus
4 of the city university of New York, and every college chartered by the
5 regents or incorporated by special act of the legislature and which
6 maintains a campus, shall provide training in the administration of
7 opioid antagonists pursuant to a program approved under section thirty-
8 three hundred nine of the public health law to every resident assistant
9 employed by such campus. Such campuses shall provide and maintain onsite
10 in each college-owned or college-operated housing opioid antagonists, as
11 defined in section thirty-three hundred nine of the public health law,
12 in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner of health. Such
13 opioid antagonists shall be accessible by every resident assistant for
14 use during emergencies to any student, staff or other individual on
15 college-owned or college-operated housing premises suspected of having
16 an opioid overdose whether or not there is a previous history of opioid
17 abuse.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02559-01-5
