Requires certain school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver and requires at least one such trained person to be present when and where students eat meals.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9517
IN ASSEMBLY
March 7, 2012
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, M. MILLER, CRESPO -- Multi-Sponsored
by -- M. of A. ARROYO, GABRYSZAK, GIBSON, McENENY -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain
school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver
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 907 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 907. Heimlich maneuver. 1. No later than one hundred eighty days
4 after the effective date of this section, school districts, boards of
5 cooperative educational services, county vocational education and exten-
6 sion boards and charter schools shall require at least one staff member
7 in every school building, facility or annex to:
8 a. be trained in the administration of the Heimlich maneuver; and
9 b. that one such person trained in the administration of the Heimlich
10 maneuver be present in the same room while students eat meals, includ-
11 ing, but not limited to lunchrooms, multipurpose rooms, auditoriums and
12 outdoor eating facilities.
13 2. The commissioner shall be authorized to promulgate regulations for
14 the implementation of this section.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13910-06-2
