Assembly Bill A1061

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for the use of glucagon emergency injection kits by persons other than licensed health care professionals

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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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2023-A1061 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§3000-a & 3000-c, add §3000-f, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A7041
2015-2016: A197
2017-2018: A679
2019-2020: A1138
2021-2022: A2312

2023-A1061 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the use of glucagon emergency injection kits by persons other than licensed health care professionals; provides for expanded use of epinephrine auto-injector devices in schools in emergency circumstances.

2023-A1061 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1061
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to use of epinephrine
   auto-injector devices in schools and authorizing the use  of  glucagon
   for emergency injection kits

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3000-a of the public  health  law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  373 of the laws of 2016, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. (i) Any person or  entity  that  purchases,  operates,  facilitates
 implementation  or  makes available resuscitation equipment that facili-
 tates first aid, an automated external defibrillator [or],  an  epineph-
 rine  auto-injector  device  OR  A  GLUCAGON  EMERGENCY INJECTION KIT as
 required by or pursuant to law or local law, or that  conducts  training
 under  section  three  thousand-c  of this article, or (ii) an emergency
 health care provider under a collaborative agreement pursuant to section
 three thousand-b of this article with respect to an  automated  external
 defibrillator,  or  (iii)  a  health  care practitioner that prescribes,
 dispenses or provides an epinephrine auto-injector device under  section
 three  thousand-c  of  this  article,  OR (IV) THE EMERGENCY HEALTH CARE
 PROVIDER WITH A COLLABORATIVE AGREEMENT UNDER SECTION  THREE  THOUSAND-F
 OF  THIS  ARTICLE  WITH RESPECT TO USE OF A GLUCAGON EMERGENCY INJECTION
 KIT, shall not be liable for damages arising either from the use of that
 equipment by a person who voluntarily and without expectation  of  mone-
 tary  compensation renders first aid or emergency treatment at the scene
 of an accident or medical emergency, or  from  the  use  of  defectively
 manufactured  equipment;  provided that this subdivision shall not limit
 the person's or entity's, the emergency health care provider's, or other
 health care practitioner's liability for his, her or its own negligence,
 gross negligence or intentional misconduct.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00958-02-3
              

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