Requires New York city, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester school districts, to employ a minimum of one school nurse per school building; authorizes the commissioner of education to promulgate additional staffing requirements.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5916
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 22, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. MARTUCCI -- 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 school nurs-
es in school buildings in certain school districts
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 902 of the education law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 4 to read as follows:
3 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the trustee or board of
4 trustees of each school district or board of cooperative educational
5 services in New York city, Yonkers, Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester
6 shall employ a minimum of one school nurse in each school building, with
7 additional staffing determinations promulgated by the commissioner in
8 consultation with at least one professional nursing association.
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next
10 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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