S 7161: Prohibits a school district from employing a qualified physician or nurse practitioner as a director of school health services if such qualified physician or nurse practitioner is already employed by another school district.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7161 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 3, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to prohibiting school districts from employing certain health professionals if such health professionals are already employed by another school district The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph a of subdivision 2 of section 902 of the educa- 2 tion law, as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 2015, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 a. The board of education, and the trustee or board of trustees of 5 each school district, shall employ, at a compensation to be agreed upon 6 by the parties, a qualified physician, or a nurse practitioner to the 7 extent authorized by the nurse practice act and consistent with subdivi- 8 sion three of section six thousand nine hundred two of this chapter, to 9 perform the duties of the director of school health services, including 10 any duties conferred on the school physician or school medical inspector 11 under any provision of law, to perform and coordinate the provision of 12 health services in the public schools and to provide health appraisals 13 of students attending the public schools in the city or district; 14 provided, however, that no such board or trustees shall employ a physi- 15 cian or nurse practitioner to perform the duties of the director of 16 school health services if such physician or nurse practitioner is 17 already employed by another school district, unless such board or trus- 18 tees certifies to the commissioner, in a form and manner as determined 19 by the commissioner, that there is a shortage of eligible candidates for 20 such employment within such school district. The physicians or nurse 21 practitioners so employed shall be duly licensed pursuant to applicable 22 law. 23 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10866-01-5