DIAZ, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, SAMPSON, SERRANO, SMITH
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Add S3001-e, Ed L
Requires teachers in public and non-public school systems to be trained in identifying and responding to asthma emergencies in accordance with standards to be prescribed by the commissioner of education in consultation with the commissioner of health.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1026
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 5, 2011
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Introduced by Sens. KLEIN, DIAZ, DUANE, HASSELL-THOMPSON, KRUEGER, SAMP-
SON, SERRANO, SMITH -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
ed to be committed to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all teachers
to be trained in identifying and responding to asthma emergencies
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3001-e
2 to read as follows:
3 § 3001-e. Asthma emergencies; training in identification and response.
4 The commissioner, in consultation with the commissioner of health, shall
5 establish standards for the training of teachers and other appropriate
6 personnel in identifying and responding to asthma emergencies in pupils
7 and other persons. Such standards shall specify minimum levels of know-
8 ledge and procedures to be followed. Such standards shall permit train-
9 ing to be given by persons or organizations deemed qualified to do so by
10 the commissioner.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
12 law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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