Bill Text: NY S02955 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires senior citizens centers or community centers that provide services to elderly persons, in cities with a population of one million or more, to provide a person that is certified in adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to cover areas within such centers.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-02-03 - REFERRED TO AGING [S02955 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S02955-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         2955
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                   February 3, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  KRUGER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Aging
       AN ACT to amend the elder law and the social services law,  in  relation
         to  provision  of services at community centers for senior citizens in
         cities of one million or more persons
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  214  of the elder law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 8 to read as follows:
    3    8. WHENEVER COMMUNITY SERVICES ARE FURNISHED  TO  ELDERLY  PERSONS  IN
    4  COMMUNITY  SETTINGS  IN  CITIES  OF ONE MILLION OR MORE PERSONS, SUCH AS
    5  SENIOR CITIZENS CENTERS, OR COMMUNITY CENTERS SUCH CENTERS SHALL PROVIDE
    6  A PERSON OR PERSONS CERTIFIED IN ADULT CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION  IN
    7  SUCH  NUMBERS  AS  SHALL  BE DETERMINED BY THE DIRECTOR AS SUFFICIENT TO
    8  COVER THE AREA WITHIN THE SENIOR CENTER AND THOSE SENIORS  PARTICIPATING
    9  IN  SAID  AREA. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SUBDIVISION, A PERSON IS CERTI-
   10  FIED IN ADULT CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION IF HE OR SHE HAS SUCCESSFUL-
   11  LY COMPLETED SUCH COURSE CONDUCTED BY THE  AMERICAN  RED  CROSS  OR  THE
   12  AMERICAN  HEART ASSOCIATION AND OTHERWISE MEETS SUCH REQUIREMENTS AS MAY
   13  BE ESTABLISHED BY THE DIRECTOR, WHICH MAY INCLUDE, BUT  NOT  BE  LIMITED
   14  TO,  CONTINUING EDUCATION OR TRAINING TO MAINTAIN CERTIFICATION IN ADULT
   15  CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
   16    S 2. Section 370 of the social services law is amended by adding a new
   17  subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   18    4. COMMUNITY CENTERS FURNISHING SERVICES  FOR  SENIOR  CITIZENS  UNDER
   19  THIS  TITLE  IN  CITIES  OF ONE MILLION OR MORE PERSONS, SHALL PROVIDE A
   20  PERSON OR PERSONS CERTIFIED IN ADULT  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION  IN
   21  SUCH NUMBERS AS SHALL BE DETERMINED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE OFFICE OF
   22  CHILDREN  AND FAMILY SERVICES AS SUFFICIENT TO COVER THE AREA WITHIN THE
   23  SENIOR CENTER AND THOSE SENIORS PARTICIPATING  IN  SAID  AREA.  FOR  THE
   24  PURPOSES  OF THIS SUBDIVISION, A PERSON IS CERTIFIED IN ADULT CARDIOPUL-
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD07121-01-1
       S. 2955                             2
    1  MONARY RESUSCITATION IF HE OR SHE HAS SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETED SUCH COURSE
    2  CONDUCTED BY THE AMERICAN RED CROSS OR THE  AMERICAN  HEART  ASSOCIATION
    3  AND  OTHERWISE  MEETS  SUCH  REQUIREMENTS  AS MAY BE ESTABLISHED BY SUCH
    4  COMMISSIONER,  WHICH  MAY  INCLUDE,  BUT  NOT  BE LIMITED TO, CONTINUING
    5  EDUCATION OR TRAINING TO MAINTAIN CERTIFICATION IN   ADULT  CARDIOPULMO-
    6  NARY RESUSCITATION.
    7    S 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
    8  it shall have become a law.