STATE OF NEW YORK
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6381
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 5, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring high schools
to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists
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 is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
3 3. Notwithstanding any other law, all high schools shall acquire and
4 possess an opioid antagonist for emergency treatment of a person appear-
5 ing to experience an opioid-related overdose. High schools shall desig-
6 nate at least one employee who has completed a training course in the
7 use of opioid antagonists approved under section three thousand three
8 hundred nine of the public health law to be responsible for the storage,
9 maintenance, control, and general oversight of the opioid antagonist.
10 There shall be a designated employee on school grounds during all school
11 hours and after school activities to administer such opioid antagonists.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04226-01-3
