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Senate Bill S532

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires basic CPR training in secondary school health education curricula

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2009-S532 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง804-c, Ed L

2009-S532 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides basic CPR training in secondary school health education curricula; requires the regents to consider the inclusion of CPR instruction as part of the standards for inclusion in curriculum guidance.

2009-S532 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S532 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                   532

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  ALESI  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring  the  inclu-
  sion  of  basic  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation  training in secondary
  school health education curricula

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 804-c of the education law, as added by chapter 269
of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
  S  804-c.  Cardiopulmonary  resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions
regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation may  be  offered  for  voluntary
admission  as a part of the SECONDARY SCHOOL health education curriculum
[in all senior high schools]. In addition to the  requirement  that  all
teachers of health education shall be certified to teach health, persons
instructing  pupils in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid
certification by an agency offering such certification in  the  perform-
ance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in its instruction.
  2.  The  commissioner  may prescribe regulations governing such health
education courses which shall  include  instruction  in  cardiopulmonary
resuscitation.  Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a course of
study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets  forth  standards  for
instruction  of  a  lesser quality than the requirements of the programs
adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
  3. School authorities [that choose to offer such course]  OR  OFF-SITE
ENTITIES PROVIDING SUCH COURSE shall provide the needed facilities, time
and  place for the instruction set forth herein and shall provide learn-
ing aids and curriculum resource materials to  support  such  course  of
study.
  4.  AS PART OF THE NEW YORK STATE LEARNING STANDARDS REVIEW INITIATIVE
REGARDING HEALTH, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND FAMILY  AND  CONSUMER  SCIENCES
THE  REGENTS  SHALL  CONSIDER  THE INCLUSION OF CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCI-
TATION AS PART OF THE STANDARDS FOR INCLUSION IN CURRICULUM GUIDANCE.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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