Requires automated external defibrillator equipment to be immediately available at school-sponsored events; requires school districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational education and extension boards and charter schools to develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4166
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring automated
external defibrillator equipment to be immediately available at
school-sponsored events
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of section 917 of the education
2 law, as amended by chapter 61 of the laws of 2002, are amended to read
3 as follows:
4 1. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, coun-
5 ty vocational education and extension boards and charter schools shall
6 provide and maintain on-site in each instructional school facility auto-
7 mated external defibrillator (AED) equipment, as defined in paragraph
8 (a) of subdivision one of section three thousand-b of the public health
9 law, in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner in consultation
10 with the commissioner of health to be adequate to ensure ready and
11 appropriate access for use during emergencies, provided however, and
12 such AED shall be immediately available in and at all school sponsored
13 events including to athletic coaching and/or training staff at the
14 location of any school-sponsored practice or athletic event.
15 2. School districts, boards of cooperative educational services, coun-
16 ty vocational education and extension boards and charter schools shall
17 develop and implement a cardiac emergency response plan that addresses
18 the appropriate use of personnel to respond to incidents involving any
19 individual experiencing sudden cardiac arrest or a similar life-threat-
20 ening emergency on any school site owned or operated by a school or at a
21 location of any practice or athletic event. Such cardiac emergency
22 response plan shall include the training of appropriate personnel
23 including but not limited to school personnel, coaches, school nurses
24 and athletic trainers. The cardiac emergency response plan shall inte-
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 grate evidenced based core elements as recommended by the American Heart
2 Association or other nationally recognized organization that provides
3 the guidelines training for the use of an automated external defibrilla-
4 tor (AED) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and shall include
5 provisions consistent with requirements of a public access defibrilla-
6 tion provider pursuant to section three thousand-a and three thousand-b
7 of the public health law.
8 3. Whenever public school facilities pursuant to subdivision one of
9 this section are used for school sponsored or school approved curricular
10 or extracurricular events or activities and whenever a school-sponsored
11 athletic contest is held at any location, the public school officials
12 and administrators responsible for such school facility or athletic
13 contest shall ensure the presence of at least one staff person who is
14 trained, pursuant to paragraph (a) of subdivision three of section three
15 thousand-b of the public health law, in the operation and use of an AED.
16 Where a school-sponsored [competitive] practice or athletic event is
17 held at a site other than a public school facility, the public school
18 officials shall assure that automated external defibrillator equipment
19 is provided on-site at the practice or athletic event and immediately
20 available to athletic coaching and/or training staff.
21 [3.] 4. Public school facilities and staff pursuant to subdivisions
22 one and two of this section shall be deemed a "public access defibrilla-
23 tion provider" as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision one of section
24 three thousand-b of the public health law and shall be subject to the
25 requirements and limitations of such section.
26 [4.] 5. Pursuant to section three thousand-a and three thousand-b of
27 the public health law, any public access defibrillation provider, or any
28 employee or other agent of the provider who, in accordance with the
29 provisions of this section, voluntarily and without expectation of mone-
30 tary compensation renders emergency medical or first aid treatment using
31 an AED which has been made available pursuant to this section, to a
32 person who is unconscious, ill or injured, shall be liable only pursuant
33 to section three thousand-a of the public health law.
34 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
35 it shall have become a law.
