Assembly Bill A4652

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Authorizes forest rangers, park rangers, and environmental conservation police officers to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A4652 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4375
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3000-c, Pub Health L

2021-A4652 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes forest rangers, park rangers, and environmental conservation police officers to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device.

2021-A4652 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4652
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to authorizing forest
   rangers, park rangers, and environmental conservation police  officers
   to  possess  and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-
   injector device

   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 633 of the  laws  of  2019,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  "Eligible  person  or  entity" means: (i) an ambulance service or
 advanced life support first response service; a certified first  respon-
 der,  firefighter in a city, town or village having a population of less
 than one million, 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  subdivi-
 sion  three  of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter or a
 person employed by such a camp; (iii) a school district, board of  coop-
 erative  educational services, county vocational education and extension
 board, charter school, and non-public elementary and secondary school in
 this state or any person employed by any such entity, or employed  by  a
 contractor  of  such an entity while performing services for the entity;
 (iv) a sports, entertainment, amusement, education, government, day care
 or retail facility; an educational institution,  youth  organization  or
 sports  league;  an establishment that serves food; or a person employed
 by such entity; (v) a police officer or peace officer in a city, town or
 village having a population of less than one million; [and] (vi)  FOREST
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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