New York Assembly Bill A03185 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3185 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BENDETT, COOK, CRUZ, DeSTEFANO, EPSTEIN, FORREST, GALLAHAN, HYNDMAN, McDONOUGH, MILLER, PEOPLES-STOKES, RAGA, REYES, RIVERA, ROSENTHAL, SEAWRIGHT, SIMON, STIRPE, WALKER, WEPRIN, WILLIAMS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring nurses in public schools The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph b of subdivision 2 of section 902 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 501 of the laws of 2005, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 b. Any such board or trustees may employ one or more school nurses, 5 who shall be registered professional nurses, as well as other health 6 professionals, as may be required. Such registered professional nurses 7 and other health professionals shall aid the director of school health 8 services of the district and shall perform such duties, including health 9 instruction for the benefit of the public schools as may be prescribed 10 by such board or trustees, in compliance with each such health profes- 11 sional's practice act. Such registered professional nurse shall be 12 required to be on the premises during school hours in any school with an 13 enrollment of one hundred or more pupils. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of September next 15 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. LBD06310-01-5