Bill Text: NY A05766 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires children to wear helmets with chin straps and prohibits children thirteen years old and younger from head first sliding while participating in organized baseball.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to health [A05766 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A05766-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5766
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 15, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring children
          to wear helmets with chin straps while batting and running  bases  and
          prohibiting  children  thirteen  years old and younger from head first
          sliding while participating in organized baseball
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new title 7 to read as follows:
     3                                  TITLE VII
     4                                YOUTH SPORTS
     5  Section 2595. Youth baseball.
     6    § 2595. Youth baseball. 1. (a) Any child  participating  in  organized
     7  baseball shall wear a helmet with a chin strap while batting and running
     8  the bases while engaging in such organized baseball.
     9    (b)  No child thirteen years old or younger shall engage in head first
    10  sliding while participating in  organized  baseball;  provided  however,
    11  that  nothing within this section shall prohibit children thirteen years
    12  old and younger from playing, practicing, or otherwise participating  in
    13  any form of baseball which does not involve head first sliding.
    14    (c)  For  the  purposes  of  this  section, "organized baseball" shall
    15  include any practice, game or other activity which involves engaging  in
    16  baseball and which is organized by a school, adult, or public or private
    17  league or other entity whose purpose is to allow children to participate
    18  in baseball.
    19    2.  Any  school,  adult, or league or other entity whose purpose is to
    20  allow children to participate in baseball who allows children to bat and
    21  run the bases without wearing a helmet with a chin strap or  who  allows
    22  children thirteen years of age or younger to engage in  head first slid-
    23  ing  while  playing, practicing, or otherwise engaging in baseball shall
    24  be liable for a civil penalty under the provisions of title two of arti-
    25  cle one of this chapter.
    26    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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