New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Assembly Bill A02725 Latest Draft

Bill / Amended Version Filed 01/22/2025

                            <STYLE><!--U {color: Green}S {color: RED} I {color: DARKBLUE; background-color:yellow} P.brk {page-break-before:always}--></STYLE> <BASEFONT SIZE=3> <PRE WIDTH="99"> <FONT SIZE=5><B> STATE OF NEW YORK</B></FONT> ________________________________________________________________________ 2725--A 2025-2026 Regular Sessions <FONT SIZE=5><B> IN ASSEMBLY</B></FONT> January 22, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to include an opioid antagonist in first aid supplies required by federal law <B><U>The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-</U></B> <B><U>bly, do enact as follows:</U></B> 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 27-f to 2 read as follows: 3 <B><U>&#167; 27-f. Requiring first aid materials in a workplace to include an</U></B> 4 <B><U>opioid antagonist. All employers that are federally mandated to have</U></B> 5 <B><U>first aid supplies readily available for the treatment of all injured</U></B> 6 <B><U>employees must include an opioid antagonist in such first aid supplies.</U></B> 7 <B><U>For the purposes of this section, "employer" includes any person, corpo-</U></B> 8 <B><U>ration, limited liability company, or association employing any indi-</U></B> 9 <B><U>vidual in any occupation, industry, trade, business, or service. The</U></B> 10 <B><U>term "employer" shall not include a governmental agency.</U></B> 11 &#167; 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in <B><U>italics</U></B> (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [<B><S> </S></B>] is old law to be omitted. LBD05773-02-5