STATE OF NEW YORK
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2697
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. DURSO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring yearly
cardiac fitness certificates including an electrocardiogram or echo-
cardiogram for interscholastic athletes in all public schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 903-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 903-a. Cardiac fitness certificate. A cardiac fitness certificate
4 shall be furnished by each student in public schools before such student
5 is permitted to participate in interscholastic athletics. Each such
6 certificate shall be signed by a duly licensed physician, physician
7 assistant, or nurse practitioner, who is authorized by law to practice
8 in this state, and consistent with subdivision three of section sixty-
9 nine hundred two of this chapter, or by a duly licensed physician,
10 physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, who is authorized to prac-
11 tice in the jurisdiction in which the examination was given, provided
12 that the commissioner has determined that such jurisdiction has stand-
13 ards of licensure and practice comparable to those of New York. Each
14 such certificate shall describe the cardiac fitness of the student when
15 the examination was made, which shall not be more than twelve months
16 prior to the commencement of the interscholastic athletic season, and
17 shall state whether such student has any heart conditions and if such
18 heart conditions could result in severe adverse health outcomes during
19 athletic activity. Such physician, physician assistant or nurse practi-
20 tioner shall conduct an electrocardiogram or an echocardiogram and the
21 certificate shall state the results.
22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
23 the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
24 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
25 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
26 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03255-01-5
