Bill Text: NY S04485 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 4485 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires health clubs to provide automated external defibrillators during business hours when they are staffed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-05-17 - SUBSTITUTED BY A3798 [S04485 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S04485-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4485
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     April 6, 2011
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       Introduced  by  Sens. RANZENHOFER, DeFRANCISCO, LARKIN -- read twice and
         ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
         Consumer Protection
       AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to health clubs
         providing automated external defibrillators  on  site  during  staffed
         operating hours
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 627-a of the general business law,
    2  as added by chapter 186 of the laws of  2004,  is  amended  to  read  as
    3  follows:
    4    1.  Every  health club as defined under paragraph b of subdivision one
    5  of section three thousand-d of the public health law whose membership is
    6  five hundred persons or more shall have on the  premises  at  least  one
    7  automated  external  defibrillator  and shall have in attendance, at all
    8  times during STAFFED business hours, at least one individual  performing
    9  employment  or  individual acting as an authorized volunteer who holds a
   10  valid certification of completion of a course in the study of the opera-
   11  tion of AEDs and a valid certification of the completion of a course  in
   12  the  training  of cardiopulmonary resuscitation provided by a nationally
   13  recognized organization or association.
   14    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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