File #: Int 0296-2002    Version: * Name: Make available a nurse to all public /private primary and intermediate schools on a full-time basis
Type: Introduction Status: Filed
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 10/23/2002
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to make available a nurse to all public and private primary and intermediate schools on a full-time basis.
Sponsors: Michael E. McMahon, Joseph P. Addabbo, Jr., Maria Baez, Yvette D. Clarke, Simcha Felder, Lewis A. Fidler, Melinda R. Katz, G. Oliver Koppell, Miguel Martinez, Hiram Monserrate, Joel Rivera, Larry B. Seabrook, Kendall Stewart, David I. Weprin, Tony Avella, Eric N. Gioia, Gale A. Brewer, Madeline T. Provenzano, John C. Liu, Dennis P. Gallagher, Andrew J. Lanza, James S. Oddo, Albert Vann, Domenic M. Recchia, Jr.
Council Member Sponsors: 24
Attachments: 1. Committee Report, 2. Hearing Transcript
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2003*Michael E. McMahon City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2002*Michael E. McMahon Committee on Health Hearing Held by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/2002*Michael E. McMahon Committee on Health Laid Over by Committee  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/23/2002*Michael E. McMahon City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/23/2002*Michael E. McMahon City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 296

 

By Council Members McMahon, Addabbo, Baez, Clarke, Felder, Fidler, Katz, Koppell, Martinez, Monserrate, Rivera, Seabrook, Stewart, Weprin, Avella, Gioia, Brewer, Provenzano, Liu, Gallagher, Lanza and Oddo; also Council Members Vann and Recchia

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring the department of health and mental hygiene to make available a nurse to all public and private primary and intermediate schools on a full-time basis.

 

 

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 17-184 to read as follows:

§ 17-184 School nurses. a. The department shall make available on a full-time basis a nurse at each public and private primary and intermediate school which i) had at least one hundred students enrolled by the last day of the second month of the preceding school year; ii) requests such a nurse; and iii) maintains, pursuant to any requirements as may be promulgated by the commissioner, an appropriate medical room wherein such nurse can carry out his or her nursing duties. For the purposes of this section, “nurse” shall mean an individual licensed as a registered professional nurse pursuant to section 6905 of the New York state education law.

b. The commissioner may promulgate any rules that are necessary for the purposes of implementing and carrying out the provisions of this section. 

§2. This local law shall take effect one hundred eighty days after its enactment.

 

JM

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10/21/2002 12:31 PM