File #: Int 1243-2018    Version: * Name: Standard procedure for treating students presenting with suspected tick bites.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 11/28/2018
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a standard procedure for treating students presenting with suspected tick bites
Sponsors: Joseph C. Borelli, Mark Levine, Kalman Yeger , Paul A. Vallone, Justin L. Brannan, Alan N. Maisel, Robert F. Holden, Eric A. Ulrich, David M. Carr
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DOHMH”) to make rules on how school nurses that are employed by DOHMH must respond if a student appears to have a tick bite.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1243, 2. Int. No. 1243, 3. November 28, 2018 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 11-28-2018, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - November 28, 2018, 6. Committee Report 9/9/19, 7. Hearing Testimony 9/9/19, 8. Hearing Transcript 9/9/19
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Int. No. 1243

 

By Council Members Borelli, Levine, Yeger, Vallone, Brannan, Maisel, Holden, Ulrich and Carr

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a standard procedure for treating students presenting with suspected tick bites

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-187.1 to read as follows:

§ 17-187.1 Tick bites on students. The commissioner shall promulgate rules setting forth a procedure for how nurses that are employed by the department and are provided to a public or private school must respond to a student presenting with a suspected tick bite in accordance with medical best practices.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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10/31/18