Bill Text: NY A04944 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring CPR and AED training by youth league coaches; requires youth league coaches to be trained in adult and child CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator; provides current coaches have one year from the effective date of the law to receive such training; provides that a person who is unable to complete a training due to a physical disability may coach as long as a person who has completed a training is present at all times.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A04944 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04944-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4944

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  first
          aid training by youth league coaches

          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  2596 to read as follows:
     3    §  2596.  First aid instruction; youth leagues. 1. For the purposes of
     4  this section:
     5    (a) "youth league" means youth recreation sports  leagues  other  than
     6  school  leagues,  including little leagues, community based organization
     7  leagues, and unaffiliated leagues; and
     8    (b) "youth recreation" means athletic activity with  participants  who
     9  are  all  seventeen  years old or younger and shall include grade school
    10  through high school athletic programs  regardless  of  the  age  of  the
    11  participants.
    12    2.  On  and  after the effective date of this section, to coach in any
    13  youth league, it shall be required of such coaches, except  as  provided
    14  in  subdivision three or four of this section, to complete a training in
    15  first aid knowledge and skills approved by the  commissioner.  Any  such
    16  course  of study or equivalent requirements shall include instruction in
    17  recognizing signs and symptoms of  cardiac  arrest  and  sudden  cardiac
    18  arrest  and the administration of adult and child cardiopulmonary resus-
    19  citation. Prior to the  start  of  each  sports  season,  coaches  shall
    20  provide  valid  evidence  to their youth league that their first aid and
    21  adult and child cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and  skills  are
    22  current pursuant to the requirements approved by the commissioner.
    23    3. Except as provided in subdivision four of this section, persons who
    24  have  been  coaches of youth league sports on the effective date of this
    25  section who have not completed a training in  first  aid  knowledge  and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  skills  pursuant  to  subdivision two of this section, or met equivalent
     2  requirements as approved by the commissioner, may continue to coach such
     3  sports, provided, however, that such coaches do complete such a training
     4  as  soon as practicable after the effective date of this section but not
     5  later than twelve months thereafter, provided, however, that the commis-
     6  sioner shall have the authority to establish by rule  or  regulation  an
     7  additional time schedule for compliance with this section.
     8    4.  A  person  who is unable to complete a training in first aid know-
     9  ledge and skills pursuant to subdivision two of this section, or has not
    10  met equivalent requirements as approved by the commissioner,  due  to  a
    11  physical disability may coach any youth league sport if there is another
    12  person  has  completed  a  training  pursuant to subdivision two of this
    13  section and is present with such person who is unable to complete such a
    14  training at all times during the youth league sports including  but  not
    15  limited to practices, scrimmages and during competition.
    16    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    18  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    19  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    20  on or before such effective date.