Bill Text: NY S09645 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires high schools to teach first aid instruction to students in grades nine through twelve.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-03 - referred to education [S09645 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09645-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9645--A

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  CHU  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Education  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring high schools
          to provide a course in basic first aid

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

     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 819 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 819. First aid curriculum or instruction.   The  commissioner  shall
     4  establish  a  curriculum  or  instruction  on  first aid for high school
     5  students in grades nine through twelve which shall include, but  not  be
     6  limited  to,  recognizing shock, minor wound care, choking, minor burns,
     7  and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from an approved provider,  with
     8  the option to allow students to become CPR certified. Such curriculum or
     9  instruction  shall  be  designed  to  be  added to an existing course of
    10  instruction, such as health, or be provided  to  students  as  an  after
    11  school  elective  instruction,  or  any  other  manner such school deems
    12  appropriate.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July  next  succeeding
    14  the date on which it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15689-02-4