§ 901. School health services to be provided. 1. School health services, as defined in subdivision two of this section, shall be provided by each school district for all students attending the public schools in this state, except in the city school district of the city of New York, as provided in this article. School […]
§ 902. Employment of health professionals. 1. As used in this article “health professionals” means persons duly licensed or otherwise authorized to practice a health profession pursuant to applicable law, including, but not limited to, physicians, registered professional nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, optometrists, dentists, dental hygienists, dietitians and nutritionists, and audiologists. 2. a. The […]
§ 902-a. Treatment of students diagnosed with diabetes by school personnel. 1. Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or physicians employed by school districts or boards of cooperative educational services are authorized to calculate prescribed insulin dosages, administer prescribed insulin, program the prescribed insulin pump, refill the reservoir in the insulin pump, change the infusion […]
§ 902-b. Treatment by licensed school personnel of students diagnosed with allergies. 1. Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, or physicians employed by schools are authorized to administer prescribed epinephrine pursuant to the scope of practice of the licensed individual under title VIII of this chapter, to pupils diagnosed by a physician or other duly […]
§ 903. Students to furnish health certificates; and dental health certificates. 1. A health certificate shall be furnished by each student in the public schools upon his or her entrance in such schools and upon his or her entry into the grades prescribed by the commissioner in regulations, provided that such regulations shall require such […]
§ 904. Examinations by health appraisal. 1. Each principal of a public school, or his or her designee, shall report to the director of school health services having jurisdiction over such school, the names of all students who have not furnished health certificates as provided in section nine hundred three of this article, or who […]
§ 905. Record of screening examinations for vision, hearing and scoliosis. 1. The director of school health services of each school district in this state that is required to provide school health services, or the health department or agency otherwise responsible to provide such services, shall conduct screening examinations of vision, hearing, and scoliosis of […]
§ 906. Existence of communicable diseases; return after illness. 1. Whenever, upon investigation and evaluation by the director of school health services or other health professionals acting upon direction or referral of such director for care and treatment, a student in the public schools shows symptoms of any communicable or infectious disease reportable under the […]
§ 907. Use of sunscreen. The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services, and the governing body of each private elementary, middle and secondary school, shall allow students to carry and use topical sunscreen products approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration for over-the-counter use for […]
§ 908. Prohibition against meal shaming. All public school districts, charter schools and non-public schools in the state that participate in the national school lunch program or school breakfast program in which there is a school at which all pupils are not eligible to be served breakfast and lunch under the community eligibility provision or […]
§ 909. School hygiene districts. 1. The board of supervisors of any county, with the approval of the commissioner of education, shall have power to establish in such county a school hygiene district which shall include the supervisory district or districts in such county, as defined in this chapter. The board of education of any […]
§ 910. Choice of method of treatment. Whenever affected by the requirements of this article, the school employee so affected, and, in the case of a child, the parent of, or person in parental relation to, such child, shall have the right to determine the form or manner of treatment or remedial care to be […]
§ 911. Enforcement. 1. It shall be the duty of the commissioner to enforce the provisions of this article, and the commissioner may adopt rules and regulations not inconsistent herewith, after consultation with the state commissioner of health, for the purpose of carrying into full force and effect the objects and intent of this article. […]
§ 912. Health and welfare services to all children. The voters and/or trustees or board of education of every school district shall, upon request of the authorities of a school other than public, provide resident children who attend such school with any or all of the health and welfare services and facilities which are made […]
§ 912-a. Urine analysis; drug detection. 1. The school authorities of each school district within the state may cause all children attending grades seven through twelve, inclusive, in the public and private schools located within such districts, to be separately and carefully examined in order to ascertain whether any such children are making use of […]
§ 912-b. Speech and language improvement services. 1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and the city school district of the city of New York may provide speech and language improvement services to students in grades kindergarten through six with speech impairments of a severity that does not adversely affect the […]
§ 913. Medical examinations of teachers and other employees. In order to safeguard the health of children attending the public schools, the board of education or trustees of any school district or a board of cooperative educational services shall be empowered to require any person employed by the board of education or trustees or board […]
§ 914. Immunization of children. 1. Each school shall require of every child entering or attending such school proof of immunization in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-one hundred sixty-four of the public health law. 2. Each school district shall assist and cooperate with the municipality in the development of a plan required by […]
§ 915. Prohibiting the sale of certain sweetened foods. From the beginning of the school day until the end of the last scheduled meal period, no sweetened soda water, no chewing gum, no candy including hard candy, jellies, gums, marshmallow candies, fondant, licorice, spun candy and candy coated popcorn, and no water ices except those […]
§ 916. Pupils with asthma or another respiratory disease requiring rescue inhaler treatment. 1. The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services shall allow pupils who have been diagnosed by a physician or other duly authorized health care provider with an asthmatic condition or another respiratory disease […]
