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Assembly Bill A4137C

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires public schools to display a poster depicting first aid procedures used to treat a person who is choking

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2015-A4137 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7986
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §409-l, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A596, S1505
2019-2020: A829, S1690

2015-A4137 - Summary

Requires public schools to display a poster depicting first aid procedures used to treat a person who is choking.

2015-A4137 - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4137

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Education

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  certain
  school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver

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

  Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
2500-1 to read as follows:
  S  2500-1.  HEIMLICH MANEUVER.  1. SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BOARDS OF COOPER-
ATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, COUNTY VOCATIONAL  EDUCATION  AND  EXTENSION
BOARDS  AND  CHARTER  SCHOOLS SHALL REQUIRE AT LEAST ONE STAFF MEMBER IN
EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING, FACILITY OR ANNEX TO:
  A.  BE TRAINED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER; AND
  B. THAT ONE SUCH PERSON TRAINED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE  HEIMLICH
MANEUVER  BE  PRESENT IN THE SAME ROOM WHILE STUDENTS EAT MEALS, INCLUD-
ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LUNCHROOMS, MULTIPURPOSE ROOMS, AUDITORIUMS  AND
OUTDOOR EATING FACILITIES.
  2.  THE  COMMISSIONER  IS AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE REGULATIONS FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS SECTION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06926-01-5

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2015-A4137A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7986
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §409-l, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A596, S1505
2019-2020: A829, S1690

2015-A4137A - Summary

Requires public schools to display a poster depicting first aid procedures used to treat a person who is choking.

2015-A4137A - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 4137--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  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 public health law, in relation to requiring certain
  school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver

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

  Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 2500-i of the public health
law are renumbered subdivisions 6 and 7 and a new subdivision 5 is added
to read as follows:
  5.  (A)  SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES,
COUNTY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXTENSION  BOARDS  AND  CHARTER  SCHOOLS
SHALL REQUIRE AT LEAST ONE STAFF MEMBER IN EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING, FACIL-
ITY OR ANNEX TO:
  I. BE TRAINED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER; AND
  II. THAT ONE SUCH PERSON TRAINED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE HEIMLICH
MANEUVER  BE  PRESENT IN THE SAME ROOM WHILE STUDENTS EAT MEALS, INCLUD-
ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO LUNCHROOMS, MULTIPURPOSE ROOMS, AUDITORIUMS  AND
OUTDOOR EATING FACILITIES.
  (B)  THE  COMMISSIONER IS AUTHORIZED TO PROMULGATE REGULATIONS FOR THE
IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
it shall have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06926-02-5

co-Sponsors

multi-Sponsors

2015-A4137B - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7986
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §409-l, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A596, S1505
2019-2020: A829, S1690

2015-A4137B - Summary

Requires public schools to display a poster depicting first aid procedures used to treat a person who is choking.

2015-A4137B - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 4137--B

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, ORTIZ, MILLER, MOSLEY, PICHARDO, GOTT-
  FRIED,  COOK,  ARROYO,  PERRY,  STECK,  BRABENEC, LUPINACCI, KAMINSKY,
  JOYNER, RAMOS, BARRON, HOOPER, THIELE, McDONALD, CURRAN,  GRAF,  RAIA,
  McDONOUGH  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. BLAKE, BRENNAN, DILAN,
  GALEF, SALADINO, SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on
  Education -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted  as
  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  recommitted to the
  Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec.  2  --
  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
  recommitted to said committee

AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring  certain
  school  staff  members  to  be trained in first aid procedures used to
  treat upper airway obstructions by foreign objects

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

  Section 1. Subdivisions 5 and 6 of section 2500-i of the public health
law are renumbered subdivisions 6 and 7 and a new subdivision 5 is added
to read as follows:
  5.  (A)  SCHOOL DISTRICTS, BOARDS OF COOPERATIVE EDUCATIONAL SERVICES,
COUNTY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND EXTENSION  BOARDS  AND  CHARTER  SCHOOLS
SHALL REQUIRE AT LEAST ONE STAFF MEMBER IN EVERY SCHOOL BUILDING, FACIL-
ITY OR ANNEX TO:
  I.  BE  TRAINED IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE FIRST AID PROCEDURES USED
TO TREAT UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTIONS BY FOREIGN OBJECTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT
LIMITED TO BACK BLOWS, ABDOMINAL THRUSTS AND CHEST COMPRESSION; AND
  II. THAT ONE SUCH PERSON TRAINED IN THE ADMINISTRATION  OF  THE  FIRST
AID  PROCEDURES  USED  TO  TREAT  UPPER  AIRWAY  OBSTRUCTIONS BY FOREIGN
OBJECTS BE PRESENT IN THE SAME ROOM WHILE STUDENTS EAT MEALS, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED  TO  LUNCHROOMS,  MULTIPURPOSE  ROOMS,  AUDITORIUMS  AND
OUTDOOR EATING FACILITIES.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06926-03-6

co-Sponsors

multi-Sponsors

2015-A4137C (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7986
Current Committee:
Assembly Ways And Means
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §409-l, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A596, S1505
2019-2020: A829, S1690

2015-A4137C (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires public schools to display a poster depicting first aid procedures used to treat a person who is choking.

2015-A4137C (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                 4137--C

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, ORTIZ, MILLER, MOSLEY, PICHARDO, GOTT-
  FRIED, COOK, ARROYO, PERRY, STECK, BRABENEC, LUPINACCI, JOYNER, RAMOS,
  BARRON,  HOOPER,  THIELE,  McDONALD,  CURRAN, GRAF, RAIA, McDONOUGH --
  Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BLAKE, BRENNAN, DILAN, GALEF, SALADINO,
  SCHIMEL -- read once and referred to the  Committee  on  Education  --
  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
  recommitted to said committee  --  recommitted  to  the  Committee  on
  Education  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee
  discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
  to said committee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amend-
  ments, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to requiring public
  schools to display a poster depicting the first aid procedures used to
  treat upper airway obstructions by foreign objects

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

  Section 1. Legislative intent. It is important that teachers, adminis-
trators  and  students  in the state of New York are well informed about
first aid responses  to  treat  upper  airway  obstructions  by  foreign
objects  as  it is reported that at least one child dies from choking on
food every five days in the United States, and more than 10,000 children
are taken to a hospital emergency room each year for food-choking  inju-
ries. It is the intent of this legislature to help prevent future deaths
resulting  from  upper  airway  obstructions  by  expanding  the choking
prevention requirement of section 2500-i of the public health law, known
as J.T.'s Law, by requiring public schools to post a visible poster that
graphically depicts the first aid procedures used to treat upper  airway
obstructions caused by food or foreign objects.
  S  2.  The  education  law is amended by adding a new section 409-l to
read as follows:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06926-05-6

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