STATE OF NEW YORK
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5718
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 26, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to automated external
defibrillators
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-b of the
2 public health law, as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 1998, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (b) "Emergency health care provider" means (i) a physician with know-
5 ledge and experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care; [or]
6 (ii) a physician assistant or nurse practitioner with knowledge and
7 experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care, and who is acting
8 within his or her scope of practice; or (iii) a hospital licensed under
9 article twenty-eight of this chapter that provides emergency cardiac
10 care.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
12 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the
13 addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations neces-
14 sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
15 authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective
16 date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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