NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A7532
SPONSOR: Gottfried
 
TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the public health law, in relation to
automated external defibrillators
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This bill would clarify that any health care practitioner who has the
necessary experience, prescribing authority, and scope of practice, may
enter into a collaborative agreement with a person or entity seeking to
possess and/or operate an automated external defibrillator.
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1 of the bill amends public health law section 3000-b to define
health care practitioner and clarify that any professional who meets
this definition may enter into a collaborative agreement with a public
access defibrillation provider, in order to facilitate availability.
Section 2 is the effective date.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Current law allows individuals or entities to purchase and operate auto-
mated external defibrillators (AEDs) if the individual or entity has a
collaborative agreement with a physician or a hospital. There are many
other qualified health care practitioners in New York, such as physician
assistants and nurse practitioners, who may be able to facilitate AED
access and thereby increase AED availability statewide. This legislation
continues the same high safety standards including all training and
reporting requirements, while expanding the availability of automated
external defibrillators to such practitioners.
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
One hundred eighty days after becoming law, provided that effective
immediately the commissioners of health and education shall make regu-
lations and take other actions necessary to implement the act on such
date.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7532
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
May 1, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to automated external
defibrillators
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-b of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 1998, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (b) "Emergency health care provider" means (i) a physician with know-
5 ledge and experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care; [or]
6 (ii) a physician assistant or nurse practitioner with knowledge and
7 experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care, and who is acting
8 within his or her scope of practice; or (iii) a hospital licensed under
9 article twenty-eight of this chapter that provides emergency cardiac
10 care.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the
13 addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations neces-
14 sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
15 authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective
16 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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