Bill Text: NY A11670 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires cardiac screening of student athletes; mandates coaches receive training in CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-10-25 - print number 11670a [A11670 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A11670-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                       11670--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     July 30, 2010
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       Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Aubry) --
         read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Health  --  committee
         discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
         to said committee
       AN  ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring preven-
         tative cardiac screening of student athletes
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a
    2  new subdivision 28 to read as follows:
    3    28.  (A) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE COMMISSIONER
    4  OF EDUCATION, PROMULGATE BY REGULATION, GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS MANDAT-
    5  ING THAT STUDENT ATHLETES  RECEIVE  PREVENTATIVE  CARDIAC  SCREENING  TO
    6  DETECT  CONDITIONS  AND  DEFECTS  WHICH  MAY LEAD TO ILLNESS, INJURY AND
    7  DEATH AS A RESULT OF STRENUOUS  PHYSICAL  ACTIVITY.    THE  COMMISSIONER
    8  SHALL  DETERMINE THE SPECIFIC TYPES OF SCREENING WHICH SHALL BE REQUIRED
    9  INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ADVANCED SCREENING FOR THE  DIAGNOSIS  OF
   10  HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY.
   11    (B) FOR PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, "STUDENT ATHLETE" SHALL MEAN ANY
   12  STUDENT  PARTICIPATING  IN SUPERVISED SPORTING ACTIVITIES ORGANIZED BY A
   13  PUBLIC OR PRIVATE SCHOOL,  OR  AN  ORGANIZATION,  ASSOCIATION  OR  GROUP
   14  ORGANIZED  AND  FUNCTIONING,  IN  WHOLE  OR  IN PART, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
   15  PROVIDING YOUTH WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO PARTICIPATE IN SUPERVISED SPORT-
   16  ING ACTIVITIES.
   17    (C) THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ESTABLISH BY REGULATION, GUIDELINES MANDAT-
   18  ING THAT COACHES AND TRAINERS OF STUDENT ATHLETES, AS  DEFINED  IN  THIS
   19  SUBDIVISION,  WHETHER  PAID  OR  UNPAID,  SHALL  BE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE
   20  TRAINING IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION AND  THE  CORRECT  USE  OF  AN
   21  AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL DEVELOP PROGRAMS
   22  TO PROVIDE SUCH TRAINING AT VARIOUS LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT  THE  STATE  AT
   23  LEAST FOUR TIMES PER YEAR.
   24    S 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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