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S07163 Summary:

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Requires every new student at a state university of New York and a city university of New York campus receive training at orientation in the administration of opioid antagonists; requires each campus to provide and maintain onsite in each college-owned or college-operated building opioid antagonists.

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04/03/2025REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HIGHER EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7163

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 3, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Higher Education

 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring every new
 student at a state university of New York and a city university of New
 York campus receive training at orientation in the administration of
 opioid antagonists

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 6438-a of the education law, as added by chapter
 2 580 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 6438-a. Opioid overdose prevention [in college housing]. 1. Every
 4 campus of the state university of New York and every campus of the city
 5 university of New York shall provide training in the administration of
 6 opioid antagonists pursuant to a program approved under section thirty-
 7 three hundred nine of the public health law to every new student at
 8 orientation and to every resident assistant employed by such campus.
 9 Such campuses shall provide and maintain onsite in each college-owned or
 10 college-operated [housing] building opioid antagonists, as defined in
 11 section thirty-three hundred nine of the public health law, in quanti-
 12 ties and types deemed by the commissioner of health. Such opioid antag-
 13 onists shall be accessible by every resident assistant, student, staff
 14 or other individual for use during emergencies to any student, staff or
 15 other individual on college-owned or college-operated [housing premises]
 16 buildings suspected of having an opioid overdose whether or not there is
 17 a previous history of opioid abuse.
 18 2. Each campus of the state university of New York and every campus of
 19 the city university of New York may designate additional employees who
 20 volunteer to administer opioid antagonists [in the event a resident
 21 assistant is not physically present] at a suspected overdose incident,
 22 provided that such employee is trained in the administration of opioid

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD11346-01-5

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 1 antagonists by a program approved under section thirty-three hundred
 2 nine of the public health law.
 3 3. Any person or entity acting reasonably and in good faith in compli-
 4 ance with this section shall not be subject to criminal, civil or admin-
 5 istrative liability solely by reason of such action.
 6 § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 7 law.

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