New York S 5469: Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer seizure rescue medication in schools

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S05469 Summary:

BILL NOS05469 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06070

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSRADDABBO, HELMING, PALUMBO

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §921, add §§902-c & 916-c, Ed L

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Allows for unlicensed personnel to administer certain seizure rescue medication in schools, on school grounds and at school events; provides that such medicine may be left with a school health official to be used as needed.

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BILL NOS05469 

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02/21/2025REFERRED TO EDUCATION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO EDUCATION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5469

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. COMRIE, ADDABBO, HELMING, PALUMBO -- 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 allowing for unli-
 censed personnel to administer seizure rescue medication

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 921 of the education law, as
 2 amended by chapter 339 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and
 5 board of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools are
 6 authorized, but not obligated to have licensed registered professional
 7 nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians train
 8 unlicensed school personnel to administer prescribed glucagon or
 9 epinephrine auto injectors, or administer diazepam or midazolam nasal
 10 spray in emergency situations, where an appropriately licensed health
 11 professional is not available, to pupils who have the written permission
 12 of a physician or other duly authorized health care provider for the
 13 administration of glucagon [or], emergency epinephrine auto injector, or
 14 diazepam or midazolam nasal spray, along with written parental consent,
 15 during the school day on school property and at any school function as
 16 such terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of
 17 section eleven of this chapter. Training must be provided by a physician
 18 or other duly authorized licensed health care professional in a compe-
 19 tent manner and must be completed in a form and manner prescribed by the
 20 commissioner in regulation.
 21 § 2. The education law is amended by adding two new sections 902-c and
 22 916-c to read as follows:
 23 § 902-c. Treatment of students diagnosed with epilepsy by school
 24 personnel. 1. Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assist-
 25 ants, or physicians employed by school districts or boards of cooper-
 26 ative educational services shall be authorized to administer prescribed
 27 diazepam or midazolam nasal spray, to teach an unlicensed person to

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD09680-01-5

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 1 administer a diazepam or midazolam nasal spray to an individual, and to
 2 perform other authorized services pursuant to the scope of practice of
 3 the licensed individual under title eight of this chapter, to pupils who
 4 have received written permission by a physician or other licensed health
 5 care provider and written parental consent to carry and use a diazepam
 6 or midazolam nasal spray pursuant to section nine hundred sixteen-c of
 7 this article during the school day on school property and at any school
 8 function. Nothing in this section shall authorize unlicensed persons to
 9 perform these services except as otherwise permitted by section nine
 10 hundred twenty-one of this article.
 11 2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or
 12 their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as
 13 a result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person
 14 caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.
 15 § 916-c. Pupils with epilepsy. 1. The board of education or trustees
 16 of each school district