Bill Text: NY S06467 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that lifeguards at swimming pools, bathing beaches, and children's camps may be a minimum of fifteen years of age if directly supervised.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2023-05-31 - SUBSTITUTED BY A5821A [S06467 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S06467-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6467--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 21, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed  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 the minimum age
          for lifeguards

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 225 of the public health law is amended by adding a
     2  new subdivision 5-d to read as follows:
     3    5-d. The state sanitary code shall:
     4    (a)  require  that  all  lifeguards  employed at children's overnight,
     5  summer day, and travelling summer day camps as defined in section  thir-
     6  teen  hundred  ninety-two of this chapter, meet the following qualifica-
     7  tions:
     8    (i) be at least seventeen years of age, except:
     9    (A) a maximum of fifty percent of the required total number  of  life-
    10  guards  on  duty  may be at least fifteen years of age provided they are
    11  under the supervision of a camp aquatics director as  required  by  part
    12  seven of the state sanitary code; and
    13    (B) lifeguards required for wilderness swimming must be at least eigh-
    14  teen years of age; and
    15    (ii)  meet  lifeguarding, first aid and CPR certification requirements
    16  for minimum lifeguard supervision levels as required in  parts  six  and
    17  seven of the state sanitary code; and
    18    (b)  require  all qualified lifeguards while on duty at the waterfront
    19  to not be engaged in duties or activities which distract them  from  the
    20  direct supervision of the waterfront.
    21    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
    23  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    24  this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
    25  on or before such effective date.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD10068-02-3