Amd §3000-f, Pub Health L (as proposed in S.7424 & A.366-A)
Requires camps and youth sports programs have at least one automated external defibrillator; requires camps and youth sports programs to use best efforts to have at least one person trained to use such defibrillators at camps, games and practices.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8554
IN ASSEMBLY
January 8, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring camps
and youth programs have at least one automated external defibrillator
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-f of the
2 public health law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending
3 the public health law relating to requiring camps and youth sports
4 programs to establish an automated external defibrillator implementation
5 plan, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7424 and A. 366-A, is
6 amended to read as follows:
7 (d) "Camp" means a children's overnight camp, summer day camp, or
8 traveling summer day camp, as such terms are defined in section thirteen
9 hundred ninety-two of this chapter, that is subject to regulation by the
10 department.
11 § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 3000-f of the public health law, as
12 added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health law
13 relating to requiring camps and youth sports programs to establish an
14 automated external defibrillator implementation plan, as proposed in
15 legislative bills numbers S. 7424 and A. 366-A, is amended to read as
16 follows:
17 2. Within one hundred eighty days of the effective date of this
18 section, [a camp or] each camp, and each youth sports program that
19 either hosts or participates in games, matches, tournaments, leagues, or
20 similar activities in which at least five teams are participating, shall
21 establish [and submit to the department of health] an automated external
22 defibrillator implementation plan describing how the camp or program
23 will:
24 (a) make available an automated external defibrillator or describe
25 reasonable access to an automated external defibrillator at every camp,
26 game and practice; and
27 (b) use best efforts to ensure that there is at least one employee,
28 volunteer, coach, umpire or other qualified adult who is present at each
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 such camp, game and practice who has successfully completed a training
2 course within the preceding twenty-four months of each such camp
3 session, game and practice.
4 (c) Each camp and youth sports program shall [include in their plan
5 details for maintaining] maintain records that such camp or youth sports
6 program possesses [a sufficient number of] at least one automated
7 external [defibrillators to meet the requirements of paragraphs (a) and
8 (b) of this subdivision] defibrillator.
9 (d) Implementation plans shall include an equipment checklist and
10 cardiac emergency protocol for when cardiac emergency incidents occur.
11 (e) Implementation plans can include automated external defibrillator
12 access provided by athletic facilities, playing fields or site for games
13 or practices where the operator of the facility provides automated
14 external defibrillator access at their location.
15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same
16 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public health law
17 relating to requiring camps and youth sports programs to establish an
18 automated external defibrillator implementation plan, as proposed in
19 legislative bills numbers S. 7424 and A. 366-A, takes effect.
