File #: Int 1056-2024    Version: * Name: Training for medical personnel in public schools and reporting on participation in such training.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 9/26/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to training for medical personnel in public schools and reporting on participation in such training
Sponsors: Crystal Hudson, Shaun Abreu, Farah N. Louis, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Justin L. Brannan
Council Member Sponsors: 5
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Mental Health and Hygiene, in collaboration with the Department of Education and community based organizations, to conduct an annual LGBTQIA+ competency training for public school medical personnel. This training would be required for DOHMH employees and contractors and be offered to Department of Education employees and contractors and would focus on health concerns for the community including gender and sexuality affirming care and a list of referrals and resources to help medical personnel connect students with such care. This bill would also require reporting on attendance of such training.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1056, 2. Int. No. 1056, 3. September 26, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 9-26-24

Int. No. 1056

 

By Council Members Hudson, Abreu, Louis, Gutiérrez and Brannan

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to training for medical personnel in public schools and reporting on participation in such training

 

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 17-180.3 to read as follows:

§ 17-180.3 Public school medical personnel competency training. a. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Gender expression. The term “gender expression” means the representation of gender as expressed through one’s name, pronoun, clothing, hairstyle, behavior, voice, or similar characteristics which may or may not conform to gender stereotypes, norms, and expectations.

Gender identity. The term “gender identity” means an individual’s sense of their own gender which may be the same as or different from their sex assigned at birth.

Sex characteristics. The term “sex characteristics” means the umbrella term for differences in reproductive or sex anatomy that may appear in an individual’s chromosomes, genitals, secondary sex characteristics, or internal organs such as testes or ovaries, and may be identified at birth, or may not be discovered until puberty or later in life.

Sexual orientation. The term “sexual orientation” means an individual’s actual or perceived romantic, physical, or sexual attraction to other persons, or lack thereof, on the basis of gender.

b. The commissioner, in collaboration with the department of education and community-based organizations, shall provide a mandatory annual training for department-employed or contracted medical personnel stationed in public school facilities that provides competency training on health concerns related to sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, and sex characteristics. Such training shall also be offered to medical personnel employed or contracted by the department of education and shall include, but not be limited to, use of affirming language, information related to prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted infections, information related to variations in sex characteristics including intersex traits, health concerns related to gender affirming care, and a list of referrals and resources to better assist medical personnel to connect students with such affirming care.

c. No later than 30 days after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and annually thereafter, the commissioner, in collaboration with the department of education, shall submit to the speaker of the council and post on the department’s website a report on the training provided pursuant to subdivision b of this section. The report shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

1. The number of department-employed and contracted medical personnel trained; and

2. The number of department of education employed and contracted medical personnel trained.

§ 2. This local law takes effect 120 days after it becomes law. 

 

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