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Assembly Bill A5766

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires children to wear helmets with chin straps and prohibits children thirteen years old and younger from head first sliding while participating in organized baseball

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2017-A5766 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add Art 25 Title 7 §2595, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8572
2015-2016: A5757

2017-A5766 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires children to wear helmets with chin straps and prohibits children thirteen years old and younger from head first sliding while participating in organized baseball.

2017-A5766 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5766
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 15, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BENEDETTO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring children
   to wear helmets with chin straps while batting and running  bases  and
   prohibiting  children  thirteen  years old and younger from head first
   sliding while participating in organized baseball
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Article 25 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new title 7 to read as follows:
                                 TITLE VII
                               YOUTH SPORTS
 SECTION 2595. YOUTH BASEBALL.
   § 2595. YOUTH BASEBALL. 1. (A) ANY CHILD  PARTICIPATING  IN  ORGANIZED
 BASEBALL SHALL WEAR A HELMET WITH A CHIN STRAP WHILE BATTING AND RUNNING
 THE BASES WHILE ENGAGING IN SUCH ORGANIZED BASEBALL.
   (B)  NO CHILD THIRTEEN YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER SHALL ENGAGE IN HEAD FIRST
 SLIDING WHILE PARTICIPATING IN  ORGANIZED  BASEBALL;  PROVIDED  HOWEVER,
 THAT  NOTHING WITHIN THIS SECTION SHALL PROHIBIT CHILDREN THIRTEEN YEARS
 OLD AND YOUNGER FROM PLAYING, PRACTICING, OR OTHERWISE PARTICIPATING  IN
 ANY FORM OF BASEBALL WHICH DOES NOT INVOLVE HEAD FIRST SLIDING.
   (C)  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION, "ORGANIZED BASEBALL" SHALL
 INCLUDE ANY PRACTICE, GAME OR OTHER ACTIVITY WHICH INVOLVES ENGAGING  IN
 BASEBALL AND WHICH IS ORGANIZED BY A SCHOOL, ADULT, OR PUBLIC OR PRIVATE
 LEAGUE OR OTHER ENTITY WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO ALLOW CHILDREN TO PARTICIPATE
 IN BASEBALL.
   2.  ANY  SCHOOL,  ADULT, OR LEAGUE OR OTHER ENTITY WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO
 ALLOW CHILDREN TO PARTICIPATE IN BASEBALL WHO ALLOWS CHILDREN TO BAT AND
 RUN THE BASES WITHOUT WEARING A HELMET WITH A CHIN STRAP OR  WHO  ALLOWS
 CHILDREN THIRTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR YOUNGER TO ENGAGE IN  HEAD FIRST SLID-
 ING  WHILE  PLAYING, PRACTICING, OR OTHERWISE ENGAGING IN BASEBALL SHALL
 BE LIABLE FOR A CIVIL PENALTY UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE TWO OF ARTI-
 CLE ONE OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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