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Int 0771-2015

Requiring the department of education to report on student health services.

IntroductionEnactedCommittee on Educationintroduced 2015-04-28Local Law 2016/012

Enacted as Local Law 2016/012.

Official record · Legistar

Agenda: 2015-04-28Passed: 2016-02-08Enacted: 2016-02-08

Summary

This bill would require the Department of Education to provide a report on student health and student health services to the Council. The report would include data with respect to nurses, school based health centers, common student illness, and health screenings.

Committee on EducationDepartment of Education, School Construction Authority, and charter schools.

How it compares

40% of similar bills passed

20 passed · 30 died

This bill: 265 days in committee

Similar bills: median 302 days · 214 days when passed

Sponsors (17)

Lifecycle

IntroducedIntroduced by Council
2015-04-28 · City Council
ActionReferred to Comm by Council
2015-04-28 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2015-10-27 · Committee on Education
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2015-10-27 · Committee on Education
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2015-10-27 · Committee on Health
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2015-10-27 · Committee on Health
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2015-10-27 · Committee on Women's Issues
HeldLaid Over by Committee
2015-10-27 · Committee on Women's Issues
ActionAmendment Proposed by Comm
2016-01-19 · Committee on Education
ActionAmended by Committee
2016-01-19 · Committee on Education
AdvancedApproved by Committee
2016-01-19 · Committee on Education
HeardHearing Held by Committee
2016-01-19 · Committee on Education
AdvancedApproved by Council
2016-01-19 · City Council
ActionSent to Mayor by Council
2016-01-19 · City Council
HeardHearing Held by Mayor
2016-02-08 · Mayor
AdvancedSigned Into Law by Mayor
2016-02-08 · Mayor
ActionRecved from Mayor by Council
2016-02-08 · City Council

Votes (15)

Aye (11)
Daniel Dromm Inez D. BarronAntonio ReynosoDaniel R. GarodnickMargaret S. ChinAndy L. KingVincent J. GentileMark LevineStephen T. LevinBen KallosChaim M. Deutsch
Absent (3)
Alan N. MaiselJumaane D. WilliamsMark Treyger
Excused (1)
Deborah L. Rose

Heard at (6)

Committee on Education · 2016-01-19 · 9:30 AM · 250 Broadway - Committee Rm, 16th Fl.
City Council · 2016-01-19 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Women's Issues · 2015-10-27 · 11:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Health · 2015-10-27 · 11:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
Committee on Education · 2015-10-27 · 11:00 AM · Council Chambers - City Hall
City Council · 2015-04-28 · 1:30 PM · Council Chambers - City Hall

Attachments (17)

Full text
Be it enacted by the Council as follows: Section 1. The administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 8 to title 21-A to read as follows: Chapter 8 Student Health Services � 21-965 Student health services. a. Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms have the following meanings: Automated student health record database. The term "automated student health record database" means a database maintained by the department of health and mental hygiene to record information about students' medical care. NYC FITNESSGRAM. The term "NYC FITNESSGRAM" means an annual fitness assessment used to determine students' overall physical fitness. School based health center. The term "school based health center" means on-site health care services provided to students within the school building, which are operated by independent institutions including, but not limited to, hospitals and community based organizations. Student. "Student" shall mean any pupil under the age of twenty-one as of September first of the academic period being reported, who does not have a high school diploma and who is enrolled in a district school or pre-kindergarten program in a district school within the city school district. Student health encounter. The term "student health encounter" means any student visit to a school medical room recorded in the automated student health record database. b. Not later than April 30, 2017, and no later than April 30th annually thereafter, the department shall submit to the council a report regarding information on health services provided to students for the preceding school year. Such report shall include, but not be limited to: 1. The number of school buildings where full time nurses are employed by the office of school health and the number of school buildings where part time nurses are employed by such office; the ratio of students to nurses in such school buildings; and the average number of student health encounters per nurse in such school buildings; 2. The total number of student health encounters; 3. The total number of NYC FITNESSGRAMS performed, and the percentage of students assessed who had a body mass index: (i) below the 5th percentile; (ii) in the 5th to 84th percentile; (iii) in the 85th to 94th percentile; and (iv) equal to or above the 95th percentile. 4. The total number of medication orders reviewed by the office of school health and recorded in the automated student health record database; 5. The total number of students reported to the office of school health as having a diagnosis of allergies, asthma, diabetes type 1 or diabetes type 2; and 6. The total number of school based health centers disaggregated by the type of provider including, but not limited to, hospital and federally qualified health centers; and the total number of students enrolled in the school or schools served by each school based health center. d. All information required to be reported by this section shall be disaggregated by community school district. e. No information that is otherwise required to be reported pursuant to this section shall be reported in a manner that would violate any applicable provision of federal, state, or local law or the New York city health code relating to the privacy of student information or that would interfere with law enforcement investigations or otherwise conflict with the interest of law enforcement. If the category contains between 0 and 9 students, or allows another category to be narrowed to be between 0 and 9 students, the number shall be replaced with a symbol. � 2. This local law shall take effect immediately upon enactment. LS#3196 KW/AES 1/11/2016 845p 1