Bill Text: NY S06800 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 6800 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the use of epinephrine auto-injector devices.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-29 - SIGNED CHAP.373 [S06800 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06800-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6800
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 23, 2016
                                       ___________
        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  the  use  of
          epinephrine auto-injector devices
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 3000-c of the public health law, as added by  chap-
     2  ter  578  of the laws of 1999, paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 as amended
     3  by chapter 424 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
     4    § 3000-c. Epinephrine auto-injector devices. 1. Definitions.  As  used
     5  in this section:
     6    (a)  "Eligible  person[,  firm,  organization,  or  other]  or entity"
     7  means[,] (i)  an  ambulance  service  or  advanced  life  support  first
     8  response service; a certified first responder, emergency medical techni-
     9  cian, or advanced emergency medical technician, who is employed by or an
    10  enrolled member of any such service; (ii) a children's overnight camp as
    11  defined  in  subdivision  one  of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of
    12  this chapter, a summer day camp as defined in subdivision two of section
    13  thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter, a traveling summer day camp
    14  as defined in subdivision three of section thirteen  hundred  ninety-two
    15  of this chapter or a person employed by such a camp; [or] (iii) a school
    16  [districts, boards] district, board of cooperative educational services,
    17  county  vocational  education  and  extension  [boards]  board,  charter
    18  [schools] school, and  non-public  elementary  and  secondary  [schools]
    19  school  in this state or any person employed by any such entity; or (iv)
    20  a sports, entertainment, amusement, education, government, day  care  or
    21  retail  facility;  an  educational  institution,  youth  organization or
    22  sports league; an establishment that serves food; or a  person  employed
    23  by such entity; and (v) any other person[, firm, organization] or entity
    24  designated or approved, or in a category designated or approved pursuant
    25  to  regulations of the commissioner in consultation with other appropri-
    26  ate agencies[; and all subject to regulations of the commissioner].
    27    (b) ["Emergency health care provider" means (i) a physician with know-
    28  ledge and experience in the delivery of emergency care; or (ii) a hospi-

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