Relates to when school personnel may adjust a student's dosage of insulin: under instructions from the prescriber or instructions from the parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by the prescriber.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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596
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 9, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, McDONOUGH -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON, WALSH -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to when school personnel
may adjust a student's dosage of insulin
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 902-a of the education law, as
2 added by chapter 423 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or
4 physicians employed by school districts or boards of cooperative educa-
5 tional services are authorized to calculate prescribed insulin dosages,
6 administer prescribed insulin (which may include adjusting the dosage of
7 the insulin under instructions from the prescriber or instructions from
8 the parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly author-
9 ized by the prescriber), program the prescribed insulin pump, refill the
10 reservoir in the insulin pump, change the infusion site, inject
11 prescribed glucagon, teach an unlicensed person to administer glucagon
12 to an individual, and perform other authorized services pursuant to the
13 scope of practice of the licensed individual under title VIII of this
14 chapter, to pupils who have received written permission by a physician
15 or other licensed health care provider, and written parental consent to
16 carry and use insulin and glucagon pursuant to section nine hundred
17 sixteen-b of this article, during the school day on school property and
18 at any school function as such terms are defined, respectively, by
19 subdivisions one and two of section eleven of this chapter. Nothing in
20 this section shall authorize unlicensed persons to perform these
21 services except as otherwise permitted by section nine hundred twenty-
22 one of this article.
23 § 2. Section 6909 of the education law is amended by adding a new
24 subdivision 11 to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 11. A registered professional nurse, when administering insulin under
2 a prescription, may vary the insulin dosage under instructions from the
3 parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by
4 the prescriber.
5 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
