Requires school districts, public libraries, BOCES, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public schools to provide and maintain on-site opioid antagonists.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8814
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. McDONALD -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to expanding opioid over-
dose prevention measures in certain settings
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 922 of the education law, as amended by chapter 68
2 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 922. Opioid overdose prevention. 1. School districts, public
4 libraries, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational
5 education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elemen-
6 tary and secondary schools in this state [may] shall provide and main-
7 tain on-site in each instructional school facility or library, opioid
8 antagonists, as defined in section three thousand three hundred nine of
9 the public health law, in quantities and types deemed by the commission-
10 er, in consultation with the commissioner of health, to be adequate to
11 ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies to any
12 student, individual on library premises or staff suspected of having
13 opioid overdose whether or not there is a previous history of opioid
14 abuse.
15 2. School districts, public libraries, boards of cooperative educa-
16 tional services, county vocational education and extension boards, char-
17 ter schools, and non-public elementary and secondary schools in this
18 state [may] shall elect to participate as an opioid antagonist recipient
19 and any person employed by any such entity that has elected to partic-
20 ipate may administer an opioid antagonist in the event of an emergency,
21 provided that such person shall have been trained by a program approved
22 under section three thousand three hundred nine of the public health
23 law. Any school district, public library, board of cooperative educa-
24 tional services, county vocational education and extension board, char-
25 ter school, and non-public elementary and secondary school that has
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13224-01-5
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1 employees trained in accordance with this section shall comply with the
2 requirements of section three thousand three hundred nine of the public
3 health law including, but not limited to, appropriate clinical over-
4 sight, record keeping and reporting. No person shall be required to
5 participate in the program and any participation by an individual shall
6 be voluntary.
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
