Add Part 3 Title H Art 137 SS137.00 - 137.05, Pen L; add S208-h, Gen Muni L
Requires paid emergency responders to be retrained annually in CPR and creates the offense of failure to administer CPR in the first and second degrees.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6513
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 4, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating the offense of
failure to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and to amend the
general municipal law, in relation to requiring paid emergency respon-
ders to be retrained annually in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
2 "Briana's Law".
3 § 2. Title H of part 3 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
4 article 137 to read as follows:
5 ARTICLE 137
6 FAILURE TO ADMINISTER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
7 Section 137.00 Failure to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation in
8 the second degree.
9 137.05 Failure to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation in
10 the first degree.
11 § 137.00 Failure to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the
12 second degree.
13 A person is guilty of failure to administer cardiopulmonary resusci-
14 tation in the second degree when he or she, acting in his or her capaci-
15 ty as a paid emergency responder including police officers; firefight-
16 ers; and emergency medical technicians refuses to administer
17 cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as defined by subdivision six of section
18 six hundred twenty-one of the general business law, to someone in need
19 of such cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
20 Failure to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the second
21 degree is a class A misdemeanor.
22 § 137.05 Failure to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the
23 first degree.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 A person is guilty of failure to administer cardiopulmonary resusci-
2 tation in the second degree when he or she, acting in his or her capaci-
3 ty as a paid emergency responder including police officers; firefight-
4 ers; and emergency medical technicians refuses to administer
5 cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as defined by subdivision six of section
6 six hundred twenty-one of the general business law, to someone in need
7 of such cardiopulmonary resuscitation and the person in need of such
8 cardiopulmonary resuscitation becomes permanently disabled or dies.
9 Failure to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the first
10 degree in a class E felony.
11 § 3. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new section
12 208-h to read as follows:
13 § 208-h. Annual cardiopulmonary resuscitation retraining. Every paid
14 emergency responder including: police officers; firefighters; and emer-
15 gency medical technicians shall be annually:
16 1. retrained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation as defined by subdivi-
17 sion six of section six hundred twenty-one of the general business law;
18 and
19 2. required to demonstrate the satisfactory completion of training in
20 cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
21 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
22 have become a law.
