Amd §§225 & 3000-c, Pub Health L; amd §3, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.1078-A & A.2885-A)
Makes technical changes to certain provisions requiring epinephrine auto-injector devices to be made available in places of public assembly; amends the effectiveness of such provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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748
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. GOUNARDES -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to making technical
changes to certain provisions of such law; and to amend a chapter of
the laws of 2024 amending the public health law relating to requiring
that functional epinephrine auto-injector devices be made available in
places of public assembly and that at least one employee or volunteer
of such place of public assembly be trained in its proper operation
and use and be present at each facility function, as proposed in
legislative bills numbers S. 1078-A and A. 2885-A, in relation to the
effectiveness thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5-d of section 225 of the public health law, as
2 added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public health law
3 relating to requiring that functional epinephrine auto-injector devices
4 be made available in places of public assembly and that at least one
5 employee or volunteer of such place of public assembly be trained in its
6 proper operation and use and be present at each facility function, as
7 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1078-A and A. 2885-A, is relet-
8 tered subdivision 5-e.
9 § 2. Paragraph (f) of subdivision 2 of section 3000-c of the public
10 health law, as amended by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the
11 public health law relating to requiring that functional epinephrine
12 auto-injector devices be made available in places of public assembly and
13 that at least one employee or volunteer of such place of public assembly
14 be trained in its proper operation and use and be present at each facil-
15 ity function, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1078-A and A.
16 2885-A, is amended to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02705-01-5
S. 748 2
1 (f) Nothing in this section shall require any eligible person or enti-
2 ty to acquire, possess, store, make available, or administer an epineph-
3 rine auto-injector, except as provided for in subdivision [five-d]
4 five-e of section two hundred twenty-five of this chapter.
5 § 3. Section three of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the
6 public health law relating to requiring that functional epinephrine
7 auto-injector devices be made available in places of public assembly and
8 that at least one employee or volunteer of such place of public assembly
9 be trained in its proper operation and use and be present at each facil-
10 ity function, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1078-A and A.
11 2885-A, is amended to read as follows:
12 § 3. This act shall take effect [immediately] nine months after it
13 shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment
14 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
15 of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and
16 completed on or before such effective date.
17 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however, that
18 sections one and two of this act shall take effect on the same date and
19 in the same manner as a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the public
20 health law relating to requiring that functional epinephrine auto-injec-
21 tor devices be made available in places of public assembly and that at
22 least one employee or volunteer of such place of public assembly be
23 trained in its proper operation and use and be present at each facility
24 function, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 1078-A and A.
25 2885-A, takes effect.
