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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1665
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 10, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, STERN -- 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 904-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 904-a. 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. have 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 is authorized to promulgate regulations for the
14 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.
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