STATE OF NEW YORK
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3446
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 9, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MARCHIONE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to opioid overdose
prevention
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraphs (iii) and (iv) of paragraph (b) of subdivi-
2 sion 3 of section 3309 of the public health law, as amended by chapter
3 42 of the laws of 2014, are renumbered subparagraphs (iv) and (v) and a
4 new subparagraph (iii) is added to read as follows:
5 (iii) Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the contra-
6 ry, a school nurse having undertaken training in an opioid overdose
7 prevention program approved pursuant to subdivision one of this section
8 may administer, directly or indirectly, an opioid antagonist to an
9 opioid antagonist recipient.
10 § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section
11 3309 of the public health law, as amended by chapter 42 of the laws of
12 2014, is renumbered subparagraph (v) and a new subparagraph (iv) is
13 added to read as follows:
14 (iv) "School nurse" means a person licensed or authorized to practice
15 nursing pursuant to section sixty-nine hundred five of the education
16 law.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08409-01-5
