File #: Int 1002-2024    Version: * Name: Requiring all schools to stock airway clearance devices, and to repeal section two of such local law upon the expiration thereof.
Type: Introduction Status: Committee
Committee: Committee on Education
On agenda: 8/15/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring all schools to stock airway clearance devices, and to repeal section two of such local law upon the expiration thereof
Sponsors: Kristy Marmorato, Vickie Paladino, Joann Ariola , Julie Menin, Robert F. Holden, Susan Zhuang, Lincoln Restler, David M. Carr, Inna Vernikov
Council Member Sponsors: 9
Summary: This bill would require all schools to stock airway clearance devices. Additionally, for each school year, this bill would require the Department of Education to report the number of airway clearance devices made available in each school building and the number of instances airway clearance devices were used during an emergency, disaggregated by school building. However, such reporting requirement would cease after 5 years.
Indexes: Report Required, Sunset Date Applies
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1002, 2. Int. No. 1002, 3. August 15, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 8-15-24

Int. No. 1002

 

By Council Members Marmorato, Paladino, Ariola, Menin, Holden, Zhuang, Restler, Carr and Vernikov

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring all schools to stock airway clearance devices, and to repeal section two of such local law upon the expiration thereof

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 17 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 17-199.26 to read as follows:

§ 17-199.26 Airway clearance devices in schools. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Airway clearance device. The term “airway clearance device” means a medical device registered as a class II acute upper airway obstruction device with the United States food and drug administration.

School building. The term “school building” means any building or facility in which there is a public school, private school, or charter school.

b. The department of education and each private school and charter school shall stock airway clearance devices in all school buildings under their respective control.

§ 2. Reporting on airway clearance devices. a. Definitions. For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings:

Airway clearance device. The term “airway clearance device” means a medical device that has been registered as a class II acute upper airway obstruction device with the United States food and drug administration.

Chancellor. The term “chancellor” means the chancellor of the city school district of the city of New York.

School building. The term “school building” means any facility that is leased by the department or over which the department has care, custody, and control, in which there is a public school.

b. No later than November 30, 2025 and annually thereafter, the chancellor shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council a report that shall include, for the prior school year:

1. The number of airway clearance devices available for use in each school building; and

2. The number of instances that an airway clearance device was used during a choking emergency, disaggregated by school building.

§ 3. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law and section two of this local law expires and is deemed repealed 5 years after it becomes law.

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