New York Assembly Bill A00366 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 366--A 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. OTIS, WALLACE, BURKE, McMAHON, HUNTER, THIELE, BURDICK, CRUZ, SHIMSKY, DINOWITZ, CUNNINGHAM, LEVENBERG, SAYEGH -- 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 camps and youth sports programs to establish an automated external defibril- lator implementation plan 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 3000-f to read as follows: 3 § 3000-f. Automated external defibrillator; camps and youth sports 4 programs. 1. Definitions. As used in this section, unless the context 5 clearly requires otherwise, the following terms have the following mean- 6 ings: 7 (a) "Automated external defibrillator" means a medical device, 8 approved by the United States food and drug administration, that: (i) is 9 capable of recognizing the presence or absence in a patient of ventricu- 10 lar fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia; (ii) is capable of 11 determining, without intervention by an operator, whether defibrillation 12 should be performed on a patient; (iii) upon determining that defibril- 13 lation should be performed, automatically charges and requests delivery 14 of an electrical impulse to a patient's heart; and (iv) then, upon 15 action by an operator, delivers an appropriate electrical impulse to a 16 patient's heart to perform defibrillation. 17 (b) "Training course" means a course approved by a nationally-recog- 18 nized organization or the state emergency medical services council in 19 the operation of automated external defibrillators. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02973-06-3 
 A. 366--A 2 1 (c) "Nationally-recognized organization" means a national organization 2 approved by the department for the purpose of training people in use of 3 an automated external defibrillator. 4 (d) "Camp" means a children's overnight camp, summer day camp, or 5 traveling summer day camp as such terms are defined in section thirteen 6 hundred ninety-two of this chapter. 7 (e) "Youth sports program" means any league or recreation program 8 organized to provide group athletic activity to individuals under seven- 9 teen years old or programs providing athletic activity for high school 10 students regardless of the age of the participants of such programs. 11 Public school athletic programs subject to the requirements of section 12 nine hundred seventeen of the education law shall not be subject to the 13 requirements of this section. 14 2. Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this 15 section, a camp or youth sports program shall establish and submit to 16 the department of health an automated external defibrillator implementa- 17 tion plan describing how the camp or program will: 18 (a) make available an automated external defibrillator at every camp, 19 game and practice; and 20 (b) ensure that there is at least one employee, volunteer, coach, 21 umpire or other qualified adult who is present at each such camp, game 22 and practice who has successfully completed a training course within the 23 preceding twenty-four months of each such camp session, game and prac- 24 tice. 25 (c) Each camp and youth sports program shall include in their plan 26 details for maintaining records that such camp or youth sports program 27 possesses a sufficient number of automated external defibrillators to 28 meet the requirements of paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision. 29 (d) Implementation plans shall include an equipment checklist and 30 cardiac emergency protocol for when cardiac emergency incidents occur. 31 3. Implementation of automated external defibrillator plans shall be 32 done in accordance with the requirements and protections of section 33 3000-b of this article. 34 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.