Bill Text: NY A03967 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the commissioner of education to establish standards, rules or regulations requiring that all chaperones or volunteers of school trips which involve taking students out of the state or out of the country be trained in first aid and to recognize certain medical emergencies.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to education [A03967 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A03967-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3967

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 8, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  McDONOUGH  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Education

        AN ACT to amend the education law and the public health law, in relation
          to requiring the commissioner of  education  to  establish  standards,
          rules  or  regulations  requiring that all chaperones or volunteers of
          school trips which involve taking students out of the state or out  of
          the  country  be trained in first aid and to recognize certain medical
          emergencies

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 305 of the education law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 60 to read as follows:
     3    60.  The  commissioner,  in  collaboration  with  the  commissioner of
     4  health, shall promulgate such standards, rules and regulations as may be
     5  necessary to ensure that students who are on an out of the state or  out
     6  of  the  country school sanctioned activity or trip shall be accompanied
     7  by at least one person who is trained in first aid and to recognize  and
     8  respond  to  certain medical emergencies at all times while the students
     9  are out of the state or out of the country. Such  standards,  rules  and
    10  regulations  shall  provide that chaperones and volunteers of any school
    11  sanctioned activity or trip which conveys students out of the  state  or
    12  out  of  the  country shall be trained in first aid and to recognize and
    13  respond to certain medical emergencies.    The  commissioner  of  health
    14  shall  assist  the  commissioner  in determining the medical emergencies
    15  chaperones and volunteers shall be trained to recognize and respond  to.
    16  For  the purposes of this subdivision, the terms "chaperone" and "volun-
    17  teer" shall mean any adult who accompanies students on an excursion  out
    18  of  the state or out of the country, regardless of whether such adult is
    19  employed by the school district.
    20    § 2. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding  a  new
    21  subdivision 32 to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    32. The commissioner of health shall assist the commissioner of educa-
     2  tion  in  promulgating  standards,  rules,  and  regulations relating to
     3  requiring chaperones and volunteers of school sanctioned  activities  or
     4  trips which convey students out of the state or out of the country to be
     5  trained  in first aid and determining the medical emergencies chaperones
     6  and volunteers shall be trained to recognize and respond to when  accom-
     7  panying students on such trips or activities.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.