NY S02210

School districts and boards of cooperative educational services must allow students diagnosed by a physician with severe food or other allergies to carry and use prescribed auto-injectable epinephrine during school days and school-sponsored activities.

Students may carry epinephrine only with written permission from a physician or authorized health care provider and written parental consent, based on a determination that the student is subject to severe allergic attacks.

Schools must maintain a record of physician permission and parental consent in the school office.

Provides immunity from liability for school districts, their agents, officers, employees, and volunteers who use prescribed auto-injectable epinephrine reasonably and in good faith.

The act takes effect 120 days after becoming law, with the commissioner of education authorized to promulgate implementing rules and regulations immediately.