STATE OF NEW YORK
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8641
IN SENATE
February 26, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
to authorizing camp operators and 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 authorize the operator or employees of such camp to administer
5 medications or treatment pursuant to section sixty-nine hundred eight of
6 the education law and in accordance with the rules and regulations
7 promulgated by the commissioner.
8 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 6908 of the education
9 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows:
10 (vi) the administration of medications or treatment by operators or
11 employees of children's overnight camp, summer day camp and traveling
12 summer day camp where such operator or employees are acting under the
13 direction and authority of a parent of a child, legal guardian, legal
14 custodian, or an adult in whose care a child has been entrusted and who
15 has been authorized by the parent to consent to any health care for the
16 child and in compliance with regulations promulgated by the department
17 of health pertaining to the administration of medications and treatment;
18 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11482-01-3
