Bill Text: NY A07532 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to automated external defibrillators.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2017-07-25 - signed chap.119 [A07532 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A07532-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7532
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       May 1, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  GOTTFRIED  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to automated external
          defibrillators
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b)  of subdivision 1 of section 3000-b of the
     2  public health law, as added by chapter 552  of  the  laws  of  1998,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  "Emergency health care provider" means (i) a physician with know-
     5  ledge and experience in the delivery of  emergency  cardiac  care;  [or]
     6  (ii)  a  physician  assistant  or  nurse practitioner with knowledge and
     7  experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care, and who is  acting
     8  within  his or her scope of practice; or (iii) a hospital licensed under
     9  article twenty-eight of this chapter  that  provides  emergency  cardiac
    10  care.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    12  it  shall  have  become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the
    13  addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and  regulations  neces-
    14  sary  to  implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are
    15  authorized and directed to be completed  on  or  before  such  effective
    16  date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11228-01-7
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