Bill Text: NY S06467 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 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