Bill Text: NY S08366 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires health clubs to provide automated external defibrillators during business hours when they are staffed.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-06-25 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08366 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-S08366-Introduced.html
                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         8366
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 25, 2010
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sen. BRESLIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  health  clubs
         providing  automated  external  defibrillators  on site during staffed
         operating hours
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 627-a of the general business law,
    2  as  added  by  chapter  186  of  the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    1. Every health club as defined under paragraph b of  subdivision  one
    5  of section three thousand-d of the public health law whose membership is
    6  five  hundred  persons  or  more shall have on the premises at least one
    7  automated external defibrillator and shall have in  attendance,  at  all
    8  times  during STAFFED business hours, at least one individual performing
    9  employment or individual acting as an authorized volunteer who  holds  a
   10  valid certification of completion of a course in the study of the opera-
   11  tion  of AEDs and a valid certification of the completion of a course in
   12  the training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation provided by  a  nationally
   13  recognized organization or association.
   14    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD17474-03-0
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