STATE OF NEW YORK
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8232
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
November 6, 2013
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Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA, THIELE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
A. BARRETT, GOTTFRIED, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring that gradu-
ates of state high schools be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 804-c of the education law, as added by chapter 269
2 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 804-c. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions
4 regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation [may] shall be offered [for
5 voluntary admission] as a part of the health education curriculum in all
6 senior high schools. Successful completion of this component of the
7 health education curriculum shall be required for graduation of all
8 students who are physically, mentally and emotionally capable of
9 completing the component. In addition to the requirement that all teach-
10 ers of health education shall be certified to teach health, persons
11 instructing pupils in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid
12 certification by an agency offering such certification in the perform-
13 ance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in its instruction.
14 2. The commissioner [may] shall prescribe regulations governing such
15 health education courses which shall include instruction in cardiopulmo-
16 nary resuscitation. Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a
17 course of study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets forth stand-
18 ards for instruction of a lesser quality than the requirements of the
19 programs adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red
20 Cross.
21 3. School authorities [that choose to offer such course] shall provide
22 the needed facilities, time and place for the instruction set forth
23 herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials
24 to support such course of study.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
26 the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all
27 school years commencing on or after such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11960-01-3
