N.Y. Education Law § 902-b: Treatment by licensed school personnel of students diagnosed with allergies

§ 902-b. Treatment by licensed school personnel of students diagnosed

with allergies. 1. (a) 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 authorized health care provider

with an allergy who have the written permission of a physician or other

duly authorized health care provider for the administration of emergency

epinephrine and written parental consent to carry and use an epinephrine

device pursuant to section nine hundred sixteen-a of this article,

during the school day on school property and at any school function as

such terms are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of

section eleven of this chapter.

(b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "epinephrine

device" shall have the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (b) of

subdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.

2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or

their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as

a result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person

caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.