Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated external defibrillators in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3507
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. WEIK -- 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 requiring nursing
homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated
external defibrillators
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 225 of the public health law is amended by adding a
2 new subdivision 5-e to read as follows:
3 5-e. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (r) of subdivision
4 five of this section, the sanitary code shall provide that each nursing
5 home and assisted living facility licensed by the department shall
6 provide and maintain on-site automated external defibrillator (AED)
7 equipment, as defined in paragraph (a) of subdivision one of section
8 three thousand-b of this chapter, in quantities and types deemed by the
9 commissioner to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for
10 use during emergencies. Such nursing home and assisted living facilities
11 and staff shall be subject to the requirements and limitations of
12 section three thousand-b of this chapter.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07866-01-5
