File #: Int 0310-2022    Version: * Name: Standard procedure for treating students presenting with suspected tick bites.
Type: Introduction Status: Filed (End of Session)
Committee: Committee on Health
On agenda: 5/5/2022
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a standard procedure for treating students presenting with suspected tick bites
Sponsors: Joseph C. Borelli, Kalman Yeger , Shaun Abreu, (in conjunction with the Manhattan Borough Preside
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: This bill would require the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (“DOHMH”) to make rules on how school nurses that are employed by DOHMH must respond if a student appears to have a tick bite.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 310, 2. Int. No. 310, 3. May 5, 2022 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 4. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 5-5-22, 5. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - May 5, 2022
Date Ver.Prime SponsorAction ByActionResultAction DetailsMeeting DetailsMultimedia
12/31/2023*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Filed (End of Session)  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/5/2022*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Referred to Comm by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/5/2022*Joseph C. Borelli City Council Introduced by Council  Action details Meeting details Not available

Int. No. 310

 

By Council Members Borelli, Yeger and Abreu (in conjunction with the Manhattan Borough President)

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a standard procedure for treating students presenting with suspected tick bites

 

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 17-187.1 to read as follows:

§ 17-187.1 Tick bites on students. The commissioner shall promulgate rules setting forth a procedure for how nurses that are employed by the department and are provided to a public or private school must respond to a student presenting with a suspected tick bite in accordance with medical best practices.

                     § 2. This local law takes effect 180 days after it becomes law.

 

 

 

 

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