STATE OF NEW YORK
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8058
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
September 27, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring cardiopulmo-
nary resuscitation instruction as a part of the health education
curriculum in all senior high schools
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 804-c of the education law, as added by chapter 269
2 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 804-c. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions
4 regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation [may] shall be offered for
5 voluntary admission as a part of the health education curriculum in all
6 senior high schools. In addition to the requirement that all teachers of
7 health education shall be certified to teach health, persons instructing
8 pupils in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid certif-
9 ication by an agency offering such certification in the performance of
10 cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in its instruction.
11 2. The commissioner may prescribe regulations governing such health
12 education courses which shall include instruction in cardiopulmonary
13 resuscitation. Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a course of
14 study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets forth standards for
15 instruction of a lesser quality than the requirements of the programs
16 adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
17 3. School authorities [that choose to offer such course] shall provide
18 the needed facilities, time and place for the instruction set forth
19 herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials
20 to support such course of study.
21 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
22 the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the
23 addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary
24 for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized
25 to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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