New York Assembly Bill A00509 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 509 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, R. CARROLL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law and the education law, in relation to authorizing camp operators and employees to administer medications and treatment to children under certain circumstances 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. Each children's overnight, summer day, or traveling summer day 4 camp, may authorize the operator or employees of such camp to administer 5 over-the-counter medications or prescription medications for the treat- 6 ment of emergency conditions as determined by the commissioner including 7 but not limited to asthma, anaphylaxis, and seizure medication pursuant 8 to section sixty-nine hundred eight of the education law and in accord- 9 ance with the rules and regulations promulgated by the commissioner. 10 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 6908 of the education 11 law is amended by adding a new subparagraph (vi) to read as follows: 12 (vi) the administration of medications or treatment by operators or 13 employees of children's overnight camp, summer day camp and traveling 14 summer day camp where such operators or employees are acting under the 15 direction and authority of a parent of a child, legal guardian, legal 16 custodian, or an adult in whose care a child has been entrusted and who 17 has been authorized by the parent to consent to any health care for the 18 child and in compliance with regulations promulgated by the department 19 of health pertaining to the administration of medications and treatment; 20 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00934-01-5