File #: Int 0649-2007    Version: * Name: Providing information to schools regarding communicable diseases.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 11/15/2007
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, Lewis A. Fidler, Helen D. Foster, James F. Gennaro, Vincent J. Gentile, Alan J. Gerson, Sara M. Gonzalez, Letitia James, G. Oliver Koppell, Michael C. Nelson, Annabel Palma, Larry B. Seabrook, Helen Sears, James Vacca, David I. Weprin, Thomas White, Jr., Robert Jackson
Council Member Sponsors: 18
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2009*Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/15/2007*Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/15/2007*Domenic M. Recchia, Jr. City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 649

 

By Council Members Recchia Jr., Brewer, Fidler, Foster, Gennaro, Gentile, Gerson, Gonzalez, James, Koppell, Nelson, Palma, Seabrook, Sears, Vacca, Weprin, White Jr. and Jackson

 

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 by adding a new section 17-193 to read as follows:

§17-193. 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. “City” shall mean the city of New York.

3. “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 that the department deems appropriate to report pursuant to this section.

b. Guidelines for communicable diseases. 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 school.

c. Reporting to schools. 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 report such incident to such school.  

§2. This local law shall take effect thirty days after enactment.

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