Bill Text: NY S00532 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides basic CPR training in secondary school health education curricula; requires the regents to consider the inclusion of CPR instruction as part of the standards for inclusion in curriculum guidance.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO EDUCATION [S00532 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S00532-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          532
                              2009-2010 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 7, 2009
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  ALESI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Education
       AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  the  inclu-
         sion  of  basic  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation  training in secondary
         school health education curricula
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 804-c of the education law, as added by chapter 269
    2  of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
    3    S  804-c.  Cardiopulmonary  resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions
    4  regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation may  be  offered  for  voluntary
    5  admission  as a part of the SECONDARY SCHOOL health education curriculum
    6  [in all senior high schools]. In addition to the  requirement  that  all
    7  teachers of health education shall be certified to teach health, persons
    8  instructing  pupils in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid
    9  certification by an agency offering such certification in  the  perform-
   10  ance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in its instruction.
   11    2.  The  commissioner  may prescribe regulations governing such health
   12  education courses which shall  include  instruction  in  cardiopulmonary
   13  resuscitation.  Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a course of
   14  study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets  forth  standards  for
   15  instruction  of  a  lesser quality than the requirements of the programs
   16  adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
   17    3. School authorities [that choose to offer such course]  OR  OFF-SITE
   18  ENTITIES PROVIDING SUCH COURSE shall provide the needed facilities, time
   19  and  place for the instruction set forth herein and shall provide learn-
   20  ing aids and curriculum resource materials to  support  such  course  of
   21  study.
   22    4.  AS PART OF THE NEW YORK STATE LEARNING STANDARDS REVIEW INITIATIVE
   23  REGARDING HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY  AND  CONSUMER  SCIENCES
   24  THE  REGENTS  SHALL  CONSIDER  THE INCLUSION OF CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCI-
   25  TATION AS PART OF THE STANDARDS FOR INCLUSION IN CURRICULUM GUIDANCE.
   26    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD01750-01-9