| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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| Jan 06, 2016 |
referred to health |
| Jan 07, 2015 |
referred to health |
Senate Bill S38
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 47th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
Actions
co-Sponsors
(D) Senate District
2015-S38 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S38 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S38
TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public health law, in relation
to requiring the presence of epinephrine auto-injector devices on
pre-school premises and on restaurant premises
PURPOSE : To require epinephrine auto-injectors (Epi-Pen) devices at
pre-schools and restaurants.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :
Section One of the bill amends Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
section 3000-c of the public health law, as amended by chapter 350 of
the laws of 2001 to add pre-schools and restaurants to the list of
entities authorized to keep Epi-Pens on premises.
EXISTING LAW : Currently, Epi-Pens are not required at pre-school
and restaurants.
JUSTIFICATION : According to the New York State Department of Health
(DOH), more than 2 million Americans suffer from anaphylaxis, a
severe, potentially life-threatening allergic reaction the main causes
of which are insect stings or ingesting food or medication to which an
individual is allergic. DOH notes that the allergic individual's best
chance of survival is an immediate injection of the medication
epinephrine to counteract the body's allergic response.
2015-S38 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
38
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2015
___________
Introduced by Sens. HOYLMAN, MONTGOMERY -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring the
presence of epinephrine auto-injector devices on pre-school premises
and on restaurant premises
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-c of the
public health law, as amended by chapter 424 of the laws of 2014, is
amended to read as follows:
(a) "Eligible person, firm, organization, or other entity" means, (i)
an ambulance service or advanced life support first response service; a
certified first responder, emergency medical technician, or advanced
emergency medical technician, who is employed by or an enrolled member
of any such service; (ii) a children's overnight camp as defined in
subdivision one of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter,
a summer day camp as defined in subdivision two of section thirteen
hundred ninety-two of this chapter, a traveling summer day camp as
defined in subdivision three of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of
this chapter or a person employed by such a camp; or (iii) school
districts, boards of cooperative educational services, county vocational
education and extension boards, charter schools, and non-public elemen-
tary and secondary schools in this state or any person employed by any
such entity; or (iv) PRE-SCHOOL FACILITIES; OR (V) RESTAURANTS; OR (VI)
any other person, firm, organization or entity designated pursuant to
regulations of the commissioner in consultation with other appropriate
agencies; and all subject to regulations of the commissioner.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law; provided, however, that if chapter 424 of the laws of
2014 shall not have taken effect on or before such date then section one
of this act shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as
such chapter of the laws of 2014 takes effect.
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