STATE OF NEW YORK
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11369
IN ASSEMBLY
October 19, 2018
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing law
enforcement officers to possess and administer epinephrine by use of
an epinephrine auto-injector device
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-c of the
2 public health law, as amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 2017, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (a) "Eligible person or entity" means: (i) an ambulance service or
5 advanced life support first response service; a certified first respon-
6 der, emergency medical technician, or advanced emergency medical techni-
7 cian, who is employed by or an enrolled member of any such service; (ii)
8 a children's overnight camp as defined in subdivision one of section
9 thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter, a summer day camp as
10 defined in subdivision two of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of
11 this chapter, a traveling summer day camp as defined in subdivision
12 three of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter or a person
13 employed by such a camp; (iii) a school district, board of cooperative
14 educational services, county vocational education and extension board,
15 charter school, and non-public elementary and secondary school in this
16 state or any person employed by any such entity, or employed by a
17 contractor of such an entity while performing services for the entity;
18 [or] (iv) a sports, entertainment, amusement, education, government, day
19 care or retail facility; an educational institution, youth organization
20 or sports league; an establishment that serves food; or a person
21 employed by such entity; [and] (v) a law enforcement officer; and (vi)
22 any other person or entity designated or approved, or in a category
23 designated or approved pursuant to regulations of the commissioner in
24 consultation with other appropriate agencies.
25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
27 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
28 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
29 such date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD16431-01-8