STATE OF NEW YORK
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3503--A
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 Education -- recommitted
to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8
-- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring cardiac
fitness certificates including an electrocardiogram or echocardiogram
for interscholastic athletes in all public schools
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 903-a
2 to read as follows:
3 § 903-a. Cardiac fitness certificate. A cardiac fitness certificate
4 shall be furnished by each student in public schools prior to partic-
5 ipating in interscholastic athletics if such student is in seventh grade
6 or has turned or will turn thirteen during the school year in which the
7 student is participating in interscholastic athletics, whichever comes
8 sooner. Each such certificate shall be signed by a duly licensed physi-
9 cian, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, who is authorized by
10 law to practice in this state, and consistent with subdivision three of
11 section sixty-nine hundred two of this chapter, or by a duly licensed
12 physician, physician assistant, or nurse practitioner, who is authorized
13 to practice in the jurisdiction in which the examination was given,
14 provided that the commissioner has determined that such jurisdiction has
15 standards of licensure and practice comparable to those of New York.
16 Each such certificate shall describe the cardiac fitness of the student
17 when the examination was made, and shall state whether such student has
18 any heart conditions and if such heart conditions could result in severe
19 adverse health outcomes during athletic activity. Such physician, physi-
20 cian assistant or nurse practitioner shall conduct an electrocardiogram
21 or an echocardiogram and the certificate shall state the results.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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S. 3503--A 2
1 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
2 the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately,
3 the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation neces-
4 sary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are
5 authorized to be made and completed on or before such date.
