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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8005
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                     January 5, 2024
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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  requiring  camps
          and youth programs have at least one automated external defibrillator
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of  section  3000-f  of  the
     2  public  health  law,  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending
     3  the public health law relating  to  requiring  camps  and  youth  sports
     4  programs to establish an automated external defibrillator implementation
     5  plan,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7424 and A. 366-A, is
     6  amended to read as follows:
     7    (d) "Camp" means a children's overnight  camp,  summer  day  camp,  or
     8  traveling summer day camp, as such terms are defined in section thirteen
     9  hundred ninety-two of this chapter, that is subject to regulation by the
    10  department.
    11    §  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section 3000-f of the public health law, as
    12  added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the  public  health  law
    13  relating  to  requiring  camps and youth sports programs to establish an
    14  automated external defibrillator implementation  plan,  as  proposed  in
    15  legislative  bills  numbers  S. 7424 and A. 366-A, is amended to read as
    16  follows:
    17    2. Within one hundred eighty  days  of  the  effective  date  of  this
    18  section,  [a  camp  or]  each  camp,  and each youth sports program that
    19  either hosts or participates in games, matches, tournaments, leagues, or
    20  similar activities in which at least five teams are participating, shall
    21  establish [and submit to the department of health] an automated external
    22  defibrillator implementation plan describing how  the  camp  or  program
    23  will:
    24    (a)  make  available  an  automated external defibrillator or describe
    25  reasonable access to an automated external defibrillator at every  camp,
    26  game and practice; and
    27    (b)  use  best  efforts to ensure that there is at least one employee,
    28  volunteer, coach, umpire or other qualified adult who is present at each
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02973-09-4
        S. 8005                             2
 
     1  such camp, game and practice who has successfully completed  a  training
     2  course  within  the  preceding  twenty-four  months  of  each  such camp
     3  session, game and practice.
     4    (c)  Each  camp  and youth sports program shall [include in their plan
     5  details for maintaining] maintain records that such camp or youth sports
     6  program possesses [a  sufficient  number  of]  at  least  one  automated
     7  external  [defibrillators to meet the requirements of paragraphs (a) and
     8  (b) of this subdivision] defibrillator.
     9    (d) Implementation plans shall  include  an  equipment  checklist  and
    10  cardiac emergency protocol for when cardiac emergency incidents occur.
    11    (e)  Implementation plans can include automated external defibrillator
    12  access provided by athletic facilities, playing fields or site for games
    13  or practices where the  operator  of  the  facility  provides  automated
    14  external defibrillator access at their location.
    15    §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
    16  manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public  health  law
    17  relating  to  requiring  camps and youth sports programs to establish an
    18  automated external defibrillator implementation  plan,  as  proposed  in
    19  legislative bills numbers S. 7424 and A. 366-A, takes effect.