Relates to health care and wellness education and outreach programs for preventing sudden cardiac arrest among student athletes including recommending evidenced-based best practices for health certificates required pursuant to the education law, screening exams required for participation in interscholastic athletics, and information for students and their parents and guardians regarding sudden cardiac arrest.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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7040
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 health care and
wellness education and outreach programs for preventing sudden cardiac
arrest among student athletes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 207 of the public health law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (t) to read as follows:
3 (t) Preventing sudden cardiac arrest among students participating in
4 school sporting events, including recommending evidenced-based best
5 practices for health certificates required pursuant to section nine
6 hundred three of the education law, screening exams required for partic-
7 ipation in interscholastic athletics, and information for students and
8 their parents and guardians regarding sudden cardiac arrest. Such mate-
9 rials shall be developed in conjunction with the commissioner of educa-
10 tion, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the New York chapter
11 of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the American Heart Associ-
12 ation, and shall include an explanation of sudden cardiac arrest, its
13 incidence among student athletes, a description of early warning signs,
14 and an overview of the options that are privately available to screen
15 for cardiac conditions that may lead to sudden cardiac arrest including
16 a statement about the limitations of these options.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11322-01-5
