Bill Text: NY S01957 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Authorizes certain persons to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device upon completion of appropriate training; requires the department of health to establish a registry of the names of lay persons trained in the use of an epinephrine auto-injector device.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-14 - REFERRED TO HEALTH [S01957 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01957-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1957

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. TEDISCO, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain  persons  to  possess  and administer epinephrine by use of an
          epinephrine auto-injector device upon completion of appropriate train-
          ing, and to require the department of health to establish  a  registry
          of the names of lay persons trained in the use of an epinephrine auto-
          injector device

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of  section  3000-c  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as  amended by chapter 472 of the laws of 2024, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) "Eligible person or entity" means: (i)  an  ambulance  service  or
     5  advanced  life support first response service; a certified first respon-
     6  der, firefighter in a county, city, town or village having a  population
     7  of  less  than  two  million  provided such county is not wholly located
     8  within a city with a population of  more  than  one  million,  emergency
     9  medical  technician,  or  advanced  emergency medical technician, who is
    10  employed by or an enrolled member of any such service; (ii) a children's
    11  overnight camp as defined in subdivision one of section thirteen hundred
    12  ninety-two of this chapter, a summer day camp as defined in  subdivision
    13  two  of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter, a traveling
    14  summer day camp as defined in  subdivision  three  of  section  thirteen
    15  hundred  ninety-two of this chapter or a person employed by such a camp;
    16  (iii) a school district,  board  of  cooperative  educational  services,
    17  county  vocational  education  and  extension board, charter school, and
    18  non-public elementary and secondary school in this state or  any  person
    19  employed  by  any  such  entity,  or employed by a contractor of such an
    20  entity while performing services for the entity; (iv) a  sports,  enter-
    21  tainment, amusement, education, government, day care or retail facility;

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05388-01-5
        S. 1957                             2

     1  an  educational  institution,  youth  organization  or sports league; an
     2  establishment that serves food; or a person employed by such entity; (v)
     3  a police officer or peace officer in a county,  city,  town  or  village
     4  having a population of less than two million provided such county is not
     5  wholly located within a city with a population of more than one million;
     6  (vi)  forest rangers, park rangers and environmental conservation police
     7  officers; [and] (vii) any  person who has voluntarily  and  successfully
     8  completed  the training described in paragraph (c) of subdivision two of
     9  this section;   and (viii) any other  person  or  entity  designated  or
    10  approved,  or  in  a  category  designated or approved pursuant to regu-
    11  lations of the commissioner in consultation with other appropriate agen-
    12  cies.
    13    § 2. Section 3000-c of the public health law is amended  by  adding  a
    14  new subdivision 5 to read as follows:
    15    5.  The  department shall establish and regularly update a registry of
    16  persons currently  trained  to  administer  epinephrine  by  use  of  an
    17  epinephrine  auto-injector  device  as provided in subparagraph (vii) of
    18  paragraph (a) of subdivision one of this section. A person's name  shall
    19  be  added  to  the registry upon request by the person and submission of
    20  information as determined by the commissioner documenting the successful
    21  completion by the person of the requisite training. A person whose  name
    22  appears  on  the registry may obtain a non-patient-specific prescription
    23  for an epinephrine auto-injector device as provided in subdivision three
    24  of this section from a healthcare practitioner or from  the  department.
    25  The  registry shall be maintained as an internal resource solely for the
    26  department's use and shall not be disclosed to the general public.
    27    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.