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

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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 - Dead) 2024-01-03 - referred to health [A04944 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04944-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4944--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 27, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. SANTABARBARA, SAYEGH, GUNTHER, HYNDMAN, EPSTEIN,
          BENDETT, BRABENEC, MORINELLO, REILLY, REYES, SIMON,  TAPIA,  LEVENBERG
          --  read  once  and  referred  to the Committee on Health -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring CPR  and
          AED 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. CPR and AED 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 youth club  sports,  travel  teams,  community
     7  based organization leagues, and unaffiliated leagues; and
     8    (b)  "youth  recreation" means athletic activity with participants who
     9  are all eighteen 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  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation and automated external defibrillator (CPR
    16  and AED) knowledge and skills approved by  the  commissioner.  Any  such
    17  course  of study or equivalent requirements shall include instruction in
    18  recognizing signs and symptoms of  cardiac  arrest  and  sudden  cardiac
    19  arrest  and the administration of adult and child cardiopulmonary resus-
    20  citation and the use of an automated external defibrillator.   Prior  to
    21  the start of each sports season, coaches shall provide valid evidence to
    22  their  youth  league that their adult and child cardiopulmonary resusci-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06312-04-3
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     1  tation and automated external defibrillator  knowledge  and  skills  are
     2  current pursuant to the requirements approved by the commissioner.
     3    3. Except as provided in subdivision four of this section, persons who
     4  have  been  coaches of youth league sports on the effective date of this
     5  section who have not completed a training in CPR and AED  knowledge  and
     6  skills  pursuant  to  subdivision two of this section, or met equivalent
     7  requirements as approved by the commissioner, may continue to coach such
     8  sports, provided, however, that such coaches do complete such a training
     9  as soon as practicable after the effective date of this section but  not
    10  later than twelve months thereafter, provided, however, that the commis-
    11  sioner  shall  have  the authority to establish by rule or regulation an
    12  additional time schedule for compliance with this section.
    13    4. A person who is unable to complete a training in CPR and AED  know-
    14  ledge and skills pursuant to subdivision two of this section, or has not
    15  met  equivalent  requirements  as approved by the commissioner, due to a
    16  physical disability may coach any youth league sport if there is another
    17  person who has completed a training pursuant to subdivision two of  this
    18  section and is present with such person who is unable to complete such a
    19  training  at  all times during the youth league sports including but not
    20  limited to practices, scrimmages and during competition.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    23  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    24  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  and  completed
    25  on or before such effective date.