Bill Text: NY S06933 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Directs the commissioner of health to establish an educational program and screening standards to prevent sudden cardiac arrest in student athletes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-09 - referred to health [S06933 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S06933-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6933
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 8, 2016
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        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  establishing  an
          educational  program  and  screening  standards  for preventing sudden
          cardiac arrest among student athletes
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  The  public health law is amended by adding a new section
     2  2508 to read as follows:
     3    § 2508. Sudden cardiac arrest prevention and  education.  The  commis-
     4  sioner,  in  consultation  with  the American Academy of Pediatrics, the
     5  American Heart Association and the Hypertrophic  Cardiomyopathy  Associ-
     6  ation,  shall, on or before August first, two thousand seventeen, estab-
     7  lish:
     8    1. A public education and outreach campaign for students, parents  and
     9  guardians   and  school  officials  to  promote  sudden  cardiac  arrest
    10  prevention, detection and education which  shall  include,  but  not  be
    11  limited  to, the dissemination of pamphlets and other materials contain-
    12  ing:
    13    (a) an explanation of sudden cardiac arrest and its causes,
    14    (b) its incidence among student athletes,
    15    (c) a description of early warning signs,
    16    (d) an overview of the options that are available to screen for cardi-
    17  ac conditions that may lead to sudden cardiac arrest including a  state-
    18  ment about the limitations of these options, and
    19    (e)  any  other  information  deemed  relevant  to  the  screening and
    20  prevention of sudden cardiac arrest,  and  management  options  for  the
    21  conditions that cause it;
    22    2.  A  cardiac screening professional development protocol to increase
    23  the assessment skills of health care practitioners  who  perform  annual
    24  physical  examinations  of  children  nineteen  years of age or younger,
    25  which shall include, but not be limited to:
    26    (a) completing and reviewing a detailed medical history with an empha-
    27  sis on cardiovascular family history and personal reports of symptoms,
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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