S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3980--A
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 31, 2011
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Introduced by M. of A. WEISENBERG, COLTON, BOYLAND, DINOWITZ, CLARK,
ROBINSON, SPANO, FINCH, ZEBROWSKI, TITUS, ROSENTHAL, RAIA -- Multi-
Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, BURLING, CUSICK, GLICK, HEVESI,
LENTOL, LIFTON, MAGEE, MAISEL, MARKEY, MAYERSOHN, McDONOUGH, McENENY,
McKEVITT, J. MILLER, MILLMAN, PAULIN, PHEFFER, RABBITT, REILLY,
J. RIVERA, SCHIMEL, SWEENEY, THIELE -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring schools to
provide instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Section 804-c of the education law, as added by chapter 269
2 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
3 S 804-c. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions
4 regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation [may] SHALL be [offered for
5 voluntary admission as] a part of the health education curriculum in all
6 senior high schools. In addition to the requirement that all teachers of
7 health education shall be certified to teach health, persons instructing
8 pupils in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid certif-
9 ication by an agency offering such certification in the performance of
10 cardiopulmonary resuscitation [and in its instruction].
11 2. The commissioner [may] SHALL prescribe regulations governing such
12 health education courses which shall include instruction in cardiopulmo-
13 nary resuscitation. Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a
14 course of study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets forth stand-
15 ards for PSYCHOMOTOR SKILL instruction of a lesser quality than the
16 requirements of the programs adopted by the American Heart Association
17 or the American Red Cross.
18 3. School authorities [that choose to offer such course] shall provide
19 the needed facilities, time and place for the instruction set forth
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials
2 to support such course of study.
3 S 2. Section 804-d of the education law, as added by chapter 315 of
4 the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
5 S 804-d. Automated external defibrillator instruction. Instructions
6 regarding the correct use of an automated external defibrillator shall
7 be included as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior
8 high schools when cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction is being
9 provided as authorized by section eight hundred four-c of this article.
10 In addition to the requirement that all teachers of health education
11 shall be certified to teach health, persons instructing pupils in the
12 correct use of automated external defibrillators shall possess valid
13 certification by a nationally recognized organization or the state emer-
14 gency medical services council offering certification in the operation
15 of an automated external defibrillator [and in its instruction].
16 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.