Assembly Bill A10039

                             
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                                   10039
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 30, 2026
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to automated external
   defibrillators
 
   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-b  of  the
 public  health  law,  as  added  by  chapter 552 of the laws of 1998, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a)  "Automated  external  defibrillator"  means  a  medical   device,
 approved by the United States food and drug administration, that: (i) is
 capable of recognizing the presence or absence, in a patient, of ventri-
 cular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia; (ii) is capable of
 determining, without intervention by an operator, whether defibrillation
 should  be  performed  on the patient; (iii) upon determining that defi-
 brillation should  be  performed,  automatically  charges  and  requests
 delivery  of  an  electrical  impulse  to  the patient's heart; and (iv)
 then[, upon action by an operator,] delivers an  appropriate  electrical
 impulse to the patient's heart to perform defibrillation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14231-01-5