Bill Text: NY A08058 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A08058 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08058-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          8058

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                   September 27, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring cardiopulmo-
          nary  resuscitation  instruction  as  a  part  of the health education
          curriculum in all senior high schools

          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    §  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 prescribe regulations  governing  such  health
    12  education  courses  which  shall  include instruction in cardiopulmonary
    13  resuscitation. Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a course  of
    14  study  in  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation which sets forth standards for
    15  instruction of a lesser quality than the requirements  of  the  programs
    16  adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
    17    3. School authorities [that choose to offer such course] shall provide
    18  the  needed  facilities,  time  and  place for the instruction set forth
    19  herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials
    20  to support such course of study.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    22  the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
    23  addition,  amendment  and/or  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
    24  for the implementation of this act on its effective date are  authorized
    25  to be made and completed on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13097-01-3