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I N A S S E M B L Y
May 15, 2024
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
read once and referred to the Committee on Corporations, Authorities
and Commissions
AN ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to requiring all
trains and stations operated by the Long Island Rail Road and the
Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company have automated external defi-
brillators
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 1266-b of the
public authorities law, as amended by chapter 396 of the laws of 2005,
is amended to read as follows:
a. The authority in consultation with the Long Island Rail Road is
hereby authorized and directed to implement a comprehensive medical
emergency services program, including an emergency response protocol,
not later than September first, two thousand five, for the benefit of
persons utilizing transportation and other related services of the Long
Island Rail Road. Such program shall include but not be limited to
provision for the following: The training of designated employees in
first aid, emergency techniques and procedures, handling and positioning
of stricken commuters, knowledge of procedures and equipment used for
respiratory and cardiac emergencies [and], an emergency response proto-
col for all employees, AND PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON EACH TRAIN AND AT
EACH STATION AN AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR.
§ 2. Subdivision 1 of section 1266-f of the public authorities law, as
added by chapter 581 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read as follows:
1. The authority is hereby authorized and directed to implement a
medical emergency services program not later than April first, nineteen
hundred eighty-six, for the benefit of persons utilizing transportation
and other related services of the Metro-North Commuter Railroad Company.
Such program shall include but not be limited to provision for the
following: The training of conductors, trainmen and other designated
employees in first aid, emergency techniques and procedures, handling
and positioning of stricken commuters, [and] knowledge of procedures and
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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