File #: Int 0230-2010    Version: * Name: Providing information to schools regarding communicable diseases.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 5/12/2010
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing information to schools regarding communicable diseases.
Sponsors: Domenic M. Recchia, Jr., Gale A. Brewer, Margaret S. Chin, Lewis A. Fidler, Vincent J. Gentile, Michael C. Nelson, Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Albert Vann
Council Member Sponsors: 8
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2013*Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/12/2010*Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/12/2010*Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 230
 
By Council Members Recchia, Brewer, Chin, Fidler, Gentile, Nelson, Rodriguez and Vann
 
 
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to providing information to schools regarding communicable diseases.
 
 
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
 
Section 1. Title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York, is amended to by adding a new section 17-196 read as follows:
§17-196 Information for schools on communicable diseases. a.Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following meanings:
1. "School" shall mean any public or private elementary or secondary school.
2. "Communicable diseases" shall mean methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and any disease reportable to the department under the health code of the city of New York.
b. The department shall develop guidelines for schools regarding communicable diseases. Such guidelines shall include, but not be limited to, education regarding such diseases, prevention methods and protocols for responding to incidents of such diseases in a particular school.
c. Where the department has received information regarding an incident of a communicable disease that has occurred in a child attending a school or in an employee of such school, the department shall immediately report such incident to such school.   
§2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after enactment.
 
AS
Int.0649/2007
 
 
AES
LS#330  
4/19/10