Bill Text: NY A00739 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 739 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to mandatory biennial CPR training for home care service workers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to health [A00739 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00739-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           739
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  regu-
          lations  mandating  home  care service workers to receive biennial CPR
          training
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  3604 to read as follows:
     3    § 3604. Mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. The  commis-
     4  sioner  shall promulgate regulations requiring home care service workers
     5  providing home care services under  this  article  to  receive  biennial
     6  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation training and certification. The rules and
     7  regulations shall require such training and certifications to  be  main-
     8  tained as current pursuant to the requirements established by the Ameri-
     9  can Red Cross or the American Heart Association.
    10    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03323-01-9