A 762: Requires all colleges with onsite housing to provide and maintain opioid antagonists.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 762 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Higher Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring all college-owned or college-operated housing to provide and maintain an opioid antagonist onsite The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 6438-a of the education law, as 2 added by chapter 580 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. Every campus of the state university of New York and every campus 4 of the city university of New York, and every college chartered by the 5 regents or incorporated by special act of the legislature and which 6 maintains a campus, shall provide training in the administration of 7 opioid antagonists pursuant to a program approved under section thirty- 8 three hundred nine of the public health law to every resident assistant 9 employed by such campus. Such campuses shall provide and maintain onsite 10 in each college-owned or college-operated housing opioid antagonists, as 11 defined in section thirty-three hundred nine of the public health law, 12 in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner of health. Such 13 opioid antagonists shall be accessible by every resident assistant for 14 use during emergencies to any student, staff or other individual on 15 college-owned or college-operated housing premises suspected of having 16 an opioid overdose whether or not there is a previous history of opioid 17 abuse. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02559-01-5