File #: Int 0895-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring schools and child care programs to stock epinephrine auto-injector devices.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 5/16/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring schools and child care programs to stock epinephrine auto-injector devices
Sponsors: Julie Menin, Lynn C. Schulman, Rita C. Joseph, Lincoln Restler, Farah N. Louis, Justin L. Brannan, Tiffany Cabán, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Gale A. Brewer, Mercedes Narcisse, Shahana K. Hanif, David M. Carr
Council Member Sponsors: 12
Summary: This bill would require schools and child care programs to stock epinephrine auto-injector devices.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 895, 2. Int. No. 895, 3. May 16, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-16-24

Int. No. 895

 

By Council Members Menin, Schulman, Joseph, Restler, Louis, Brannan, Cabán, Gutiérrez, Brewer, Narcisse, Hanif and Carr

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring schools and child care programs to stock epinephrine auto-injector devices

 

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 17-199.26 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.26 Epinephrine auto-injector devices. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Child care facility. The term "child care facility" has the same meaning as the term "facility" as defined in section 47.01 of the New York city health code.

Child care program. The term "child care program" has the same meaning as in section 47.01 of the New York city health code.

Epinephrine auto-injector device. The term “epinephrine auto-injector device” has the same meaning as in section 3000-c of the public health law.

School premises. The term “school premises” means any building or facility, or any portion thereof, in which there is a public school, private school, or charter school.

b. The department of education and each private school and charter school shall stock epinephrine auto-injectors in all school premises under their respective control, in accordance with section 3000-c of the public health law.

c. Each child care program shall stock epinephrine auto-injectors in all child care facilities under its control, in accordance with section 3000-c of the public health law.

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

 

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