Relates to allowing the administration of prescribed glucagon or epinephrine auto injectors in emergency situations by trained unlicensed school personnel.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5127
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 11, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. BENEDETTO, JACKSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. ABINANTI, BUTTENSCHON, GRIFFIN, HEVESI, JEAN-PIERRE, MANKTELOW,
OTIS, RAMOS, SEAWRIGHT, SOLAGES, STECK, TAGUE, THIELE -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to allowing the adminis-
tration of certain prescribed medications by trained unlicensed school
personnel
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 921 of the education law, as added
2 by chapter 423 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and
4 board of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools are
5 authorized, but not obligated to have licensed registered professional
6 nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians train
7 unlicensed school personnel to [inject] administer prescribed glucagon
8 or epinephrine auto injectors in emergency situations, where an appro-
9 priately licensed health professional is not available, to pupils who
10 have the written permission of a physician or other duly authorized
11 health care provider for the administration of [injectable] glucagon or
12 emergency epinephrine auto injector, along with written parental
13 consent, during the school day on school property and at any school
14 function as such terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one
15 and two of section eleven of this chapter. Training must be provided by
16 a physician or other duly authorized licensed health care professional
17 in a competent manner and must be completed in a form and manner
18 prescribed by the commissioner in regulation.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02626-01-1
