The New York State Senate

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                                 3980--A

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 31, 2011
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Introduced  by  M.  of  A. WEISENBERG, COLTON, BOYLAND, DINOWITZ, CLARK,
  ROBINSON, SPANO, FINCH, ZEBROWSKI, TITUS, ROSENTHAL,  RAIA  --  Multi-
  Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  ABBATE, BURLING, CUSICK, GLICK, HEVESI,
  LENTOL, LIFTON, MAGEE, MAISEL, MARKEY, MAYERSOHN, McDONOUGH,  McENENY,
  McKEVITT,   J. MILLER,  MILLMAN,  PAULIN,  PHEFFER,  RABBITT,  REILLY,
  J. RIVERA, SCHIMEL, SWEENEY, THIELE -- read once and referred  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  schools  to
  provide instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation

  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]  SHALL  be [offered for
voluntary admission as] a part of the 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  certif-
ication  by  an agency offering such certification in the performance of
cardiopulmonary resuscitation [and in its instruction].
  2. The commissioner [may] SHALL prescribe regulations  governing  such
health education courses which shall include instruction in cardiopulmo-
nary  resuscitation.  Such  regulations  shall  in  no event prescribe a
course of study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets forth stand-
ards for PSYCHOMOTOR SKILL 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] shall provide
the needed facilities, time and place  for  the  instruction  set  forth

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07469-03-1

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herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials
to support such course of study.
  S  2.   Section 804-d of the education law, as added by chapter 315 of
the laws of 2005, is amended to read as follows:
  S 804-d. Automated external  defibrillator  instruction.  Instructions
regarding  the  correct use of an automated external defibrillator shall
be included as a part of the health education curriculum in  all  senior
high  schools  when  cardiopulmonary  resuscitation instruction is being
provided as authorized by section eight hundred four-c of this  article.
In  addition  to  the  requirement that all teachers of health education
shall be certified to teach health, persons instructing  pupils  in  the
correct  use  of  automated  external defibrillators shall possess valid
certification by a nationally recognized organization or the state emer-
gency medical services council offering certification in  the  operation
of an automated external defibrillator [and in its instruction].
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.