New York Education Law Article 19 - MEDICAL AND HEALTH SERVICE
- 901 - School Health Services to Be Provided.
1. School health services, as defined in subdivision two of this section, shall be provided by each school district for all students attending the public...
- 902 - Employment of Health Professionals.
1. As used in this article "health professionals" means persons duly licensed or otherwise authorized to practice a health profession pursuant to applicable law, including,...
- 902-a - Treatment of Students Diagnosed With Diabetes by School Personnel.
1. Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or physicians employed by school districts or boards of cooperative educational services are authorized to calculate prescribed insulin...
- 902-b - Treatment by Licensed School Personnel of Students Diagnosed With Allergies.
1. Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or physicians employed by schools are authorized to administer prescribed epinephrine pursuant to the scope of practice of...
- 903 - Students to Furnish Health Certificates; and Dental Health Certificates.
* 1. A health certificate shall be furnished by each student in the public schools upon his or her entrance in such schools and upon...
- 904 - Examinations by Health Appraisal.
1. Each principal of a public school, or his or her designee, shall report to the director of school health services having jurisdiction over such...
- 905 - Record of Screening Examinations for Vision, Hearing and Scoliosis.
1. The director of school health services of each school district in this state that is required to provide school health services, or the health...
- 906 - Existence of Communicable Diseases; Return After Illness.
1. Whenever, upon investigation and evaluation by the director of school health services or other health professionals acting upon direction or referral of such director...
- 907 - Use of Sunscreen.
The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services, and the governing body of each private elementary, middle...
- 909 - School Hygiene Districts.
1. The board of supervisors of any county, with the approval of the commissioner of education, shall have power to establish in such county a...
- 910 - Choice of Method of Treatment.
Whenever affected by the requirements of this article, the school employee so affected, and, in the case of a child, the parent of, or person...
- 911 - Enforcement.
1. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to enforce the provisions of this article, and the commissioner may adopt rules and regulations not...
- 912 - Health and Welfare Services to All Children.
The voters and/or trustees or board of education of every school district shall, upon request of the authorities of a school other than public, provide...
- 912-a - Urine Analysis; Drug Detection.
1. The school authorities of each school district within the state may cause all children attending grades seven through twelve, inclusive, in the public and...
- 912-b - Speech and Language Improvement Services.
1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and the city school district of the city of New York may provide speech...
- 913 - Medical Examinations of Teachers and Other Employees.
In order to safeguard the health of children attending the public schools, the board of education or trustees of any school district or a board...
- 914 - Immunization of Children.
1. Each school shall require of every child entering or attending such school proof of immunization in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-one hundred...
- 915 - Prohibiting the Sale of Certain Sweetened Foods.
From the beginning of the school day until the end of the last scheduled meal period, no sweetened soda water, no chewing gum, no candy...
- 916 - Pupils With Asthma or Another Respiratory Disease Requiring Rescue Inhaler Treatment.
1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services shall allow pupils who have been diagnosed by...
- 916-a - Pupils With Allergies.
1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services shall allow pupils who have been diagnosed by...
- 916-b - Pupils With Diabetes.
1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services shall allow pupils who have been diagnosed with...
- 917 - On-Site Cardiac Automated External Defibrillator.
1. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools shall provide and maintain on-site in each instructional...
- 918 - School District Nutrition Advisory Committees.
1. a. Every school district is hereby authorized and encouraged to establish a child nutrition advisory committee. b. The district advisory committee is encouraged to...
- 919 - On-Site Nebulizers.
* 1. The board of education or trustees of the school district responsible for providing health services in a school, or the board of cooperative...
- 920 - Public Schools; Infestation of Bedbugs (Cimex Lectularius).
1. In a city school district having a population of one million or more inhabitants, the principal of each public school shall provide immediate notification...
- 921 - Training of Unlicensed School Personnel to Administer Certain Medications.
* 1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools are authorized, but not...
- 921-a - On-Site Epinephrine Auto-Injector.
1. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elementary and secondary schools in this state...
- 922 - Opiod Overdose Prevention.
922. Opioid overdose prevention. 1. School districts, public libraries, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elementary...
Last modified: February 3, 2019