STATE OF NEW YORK
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2021
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 18, 2023
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Introduced by Sens. ADDABBO, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed 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
