STATE OF NEW YORK
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4228
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 2, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. DIAZ, EDDINGTON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
PERALTA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring that teach-
ers and paraprofessionals be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
and first-aid
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 920 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 920. CPR-trained teachers and paraprofessionals required. 1. All
4 teachers and paraprofessionals employed in any school shall be certified
5 in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first-aid.
6 2. For the purposes of this section, a teacher or paraprofessional is
7 considered certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first-aid upon
8 the satisfactory completion of a course which meets the requirements
9 established by regulation of the commissioner.
10 3. The provisions of this section are in addition to any other
11 requirements of law, rule or regulation relative to required health
12 education.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
14 it shall have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediate-
15 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rules or regulations
16 necessary for the implementation of the foregoing section of this act on
17 its effective date is authorized and directed to be made and completed
18 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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