A 3742: Requires high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists during all school hours and after school activities.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3742 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN, SEAWRIGHT, SHIMSKY, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, GALLAGHER, BRAUNSTEIN, CUNNINGHAM, BUTTENSCHON, HEVESI, R. CARROLL, SIMON, TAYLOR, ROSENTHAL, TAPIA, BURDICK, LUNSFORD, LUCAS, LEVENBERG, ZACCARO, GLICK, ALVAREZ, GIBBS, SEPTIMO, COOK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring high schools to carry and have a trained employee to administer opioid antagonists The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 922 of the education law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. Notwithstanding any other law, all high schools shall acquire and 4 possess an opioid antagonist for emergency treatment of a person appear- 5 ing to experience an opioid-related overdose. High schools shall desig- 6 nate at least one employee who has completed a training course in the 7 use of opioid antagonists approved under section three thousand three 8 hundred nine of the public health law to be responsible for the storage, 9 maintenance, control, and general oversight of the opioid antagonist. 10 There shall be a designated employee on school grounds during all school 11 hours and after school activities to administer such opioid antagonists. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03054-01-5