STATE OF NEW YORK
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7536
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 1, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring high schools
to provide a course in basic first aid
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 819 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 819. First aid curriculum or instruction. The commissioner shall
4 establish a curriculum or instruction on first aid for high school
5 students in grades nine through twelve which shall include, but not be
6 limited to, recognizing shock, minor wound care, choking, minor burns,
7 and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from an approved provider, with
8 the option to allow students to become CPR certified. Such curriculum or
9 instruction shall be designed to be added to an existing course of
10 instruction, such as health, or be provided to students as an after
11 school elective instruction, or any other manner such school deems
12 appropriate.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
14 the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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