Allows camp employees to administer medications and treatment to children, under parent direction and authorization, after specific authorization by the camp's medical director and in compliance with regulations.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6230--A
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 7, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. WEBB, HINCHEY, PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
to authorizing camp employees to administer medications and treatment
to children under certain circumstances
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 1394 of the public health law is amended by adding
2 a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
3 10. Each children's overnight, summer day, or traveling summer day
4 camp, may permit employees of such camp to administer over-the-counter
5 medications pursuant to a standing order including but not limited to
6 for the purposes of pain relief or the treatment of anaphylaxis and
7 motion sickness or prescription medications for the treatment of emer-
8 gency conditions including but not limited to asthma, anaphylaxis, and
9 oral or nasal spray seizure medications. Such medications shall be
10 approved by the commissioner and administered pursuant to section
11 sixty-nine hundred eight of the education law and in accordance with the
12 rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner, in consultation
13 with the commissioner of education.
14 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 6908 of the education
15 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
16 (vi) the administration of medications or treatment by employees of
17 children's overnight camp, summer day camp and traveling summer day camp
18 where such employees have been given specific authorization by the
19 camp's medical director, to administer such medications or treatments to
20 a specific child, are acting under the direction and authority of a
21 parent of a child, legal guardian, legal custodian, or an adult in whose
22 care a child has been entrusted and who have been authorized by the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 parent or guardian to consent to health care for the child and in
2 compliance with regulations promulgated by the department of health
3 pertaining to the administration of medications and treatment;
4 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
