New York S 3603: Allows schools and camps to implement a policy to administer over-the-counter medication to students and children attending such schools or camps

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S03603 Summary:

BILL NOS03603 

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SAME ASSAME AS A03593

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SPONSORPALUMBO

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §1394, Pub Health L; amd §901, Ed L

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Allows schools and camps to implement a policy to administer over-the-counter medication to students and children attending such schools or camps upon written request by such students' and children's parents or guardians.

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BILL NOS03603 

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01/28/2025REFERRED TO HEALTH

01/07/2026REFERRED TO HEALTH

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3603

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 January 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation
 to the administration by a school or camp of over-the-counter medica-
 tion to children attending such school or camp

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

 1 Section 1. Section 1394 of the public health law is amended by adding
 2 a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
 3 10. (a) For the purposes of this subdivision, "over-the-counter medi-
 4 cation" shall mean a medication or other treatment which has been
 5 approved by the federal food and drug administration for sale without a
 6 physician's order and for which the federal food and drug administration
 7 has established dosing instructions which appear on the packaging of
 8 such medication.
 9 (b) Each children's overnight camp, summer day camp and traveling
 10 summer day camp shall allow certain camp personnel to administer over-
 11 the-counter medications, with the permission of the parent or guardian
 12 of the child, to children attending such camp and upon a request by the
 13 child, or upon a determination by certain camp personnel. Such adminis-
 14 tration of over-the-counter medications shall not require input from a
 15 licensed healthcare provider. A record of such permission, request, or
 16 determination shall be maintained by the camp. Such permission of a
 17 parent or guardian of a child to administer an over-the-counter medica-
 18 tion to such child may be made in advance of need by way of a written
 19 request that is signed by such parent or guardian and lists which medi-
 20 cations and doses may be administered to such child.
 21 (c) Over-the-counter medication administered to children attending a
 22 camp pursuant to paragraph (b) of this subdivision may be provided by:
 23 (i) the parent or guardian of the child; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07552-01-5

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 1 (ii) an adult in whose care such child has been entrusted and has been
 2 authorized by the parent or guardian of such child to consent to any
 3 health care for such child.
 4 (d) The dose, route, and timing of the administration of over-the-
 5 counter medication to children attending a camp pursuant to this subdi-
 6 vision shall comply with dosing instructions listed on the medication
 7 packaging.
 8 § 2. Section 901 of the education law is amended by adding a new
 9 subdivision 3 to read as follows:
 10 3. (a) For the purposes of this subdivision, "over-the-counter medica-
 11 tion":
 12 (i) shall mean a medication or other treatment which has been approved
 13 by the federal food and drug administration for sale without a physi-
 14 cian's order and for which the federal food and drug administration has
 15 established dosing instructions which appear on the packaging of such
 16 medication; and
 17 (ii) may include oral medications, topical medications, and other
 18 topical products, including but not limited to, insect repellants.
 19 (b) Each school shall allow certain school personnel to administer
 20 over-the-counter medications to students attending such school with the
 21 permission of the parents or other persons in parental relation to the
 22 child, upon a request by the child, or upon a determination by certain
 23 school