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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8830
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
June 9, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring a certain
type of opioid overdose rescue kit be provided by the state to schools
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. (A) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL PROVIDE TO EVERY ELEMENTARY AND SECOND-
4 ARY SCHOOL, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, AND EVERY TRADE OR VOCATIONAL SCHOOL,
5 COLLEGE, AND UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, WITHIN THE STATE AT LEAST
6 ONE OPIOID AND FENTANYL OVERDOSE RESCUE KIT AT NO COST TO THE SCHOOL.
7 TRAINING SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE, BUT SHALL NOT BE REQUIRED, TO ANY
8 TEACHER, FACULTY, OR STAFF MEMBER OF SUCH SCHOOLS OR SCHOOL DISTRICTS
9 WHO WISHES TO PARTICIPATE IN SUCH TRAINING IN ACCORDANCE WITH SUBDIVI-
10 SION TWO OF THIS SECTION.
11 (B) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "OPIOID AND FENTANYL OVER-
12 DOSE RESCUE KIT" MEANS A BOX WHICH:
13 (I) CONTAINS AT LEAST TWO DOSES OF NALOXONE NASAL SPRAYS AND CARDIOP-
14 ULMONARY RESUSCITATION EQUIPMENT;
15 (II) CAN BE WIRELESSLY CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET;
16 (III) IS PROGRAMMED TO ALERT FIRST RESPONDERS WHEN SUCH BOX IS OPENED;
17 AND
18 (IV) IS PROGRAMMED TO PROVIDE WIRELESS NOTIFICATION BEFORE THE EXPIRA-
19 TION DATE OF THE INCLUDED NALOXONE OR ANY OTHER MEDICATIONS OR PERISH-
20 ABLE SUPPLIES.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
22 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
23 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
24 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
25 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13280-01-5