Bill Text: NY S05718 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to automated external defibrillators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-06-08 - SUBSTITUTED BY A7532 [S05718 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05718-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5718 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 26, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to automated external defibrillators The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-b of the 2 public health law, as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 1998, is 3 amended to read as follows: 4 (b) "Emergency health care provider" means (i) a physician with know- 5 ledge and experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care; [or] 6 (ii) a physician assistant or nurse practitioner with knowledge and 7 experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care, and who is acting 8 within his or her scope of practice; or (iii) a hospital licensed under 9 article twenty-eight of this chapter that provides emergency cardiac 10 care. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 12 it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the 13 addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations neces- 14 sary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are 15 authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective 16 date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11228-01-7