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Assembly Bill A10765

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment

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2025-A10765 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3000-a, Pub Health L

2025-A10765 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment unless it is established that such employee was grossly negligent in providing such first aid or emergency treatment.

2025-A10765 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10765
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emer-
   gency treatment
 
   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 is
 renumbered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is  added  to  read  as
 follows:
   2.  NO  EMPLOYEE,  WHETHER  IN  PUBLIC OR PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT, SHALL BE
 SUBJECT TO ANY ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTION, HAVE THEIR  TERMS  AND  CONDI-
 TIONS  OF  EMPLOYMENT ALTERED, OR BE SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINE OR REPRIMAND,
 WHERE SUCH EMPLOYEE VOLUNTARILY  AND  WITHOUT  EXPECTATION  OF  MONETARY
 COMPENSATION,  RENDERS  FIRST AID OR EMERGENCY TREATMENT AT THE SCENE OF
 AN ACCIDENT OR OTHER EMERGENCY OUTSIDE A HOSPITAL,  DOCTOR'S  OFFICE  OR
 ANY  OTHER  PLACE HAVING PROPER AND NECESSARY MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IN CLOSE
 PROXIMITY, TO A PERSON WHO IS UNCONSCIOUS, ILL, OR INJURED, UNLESS IT IS
 ESTABLISHED THAT SUCH EMPLOYEE WAS GROSSLY NEGLIGENT IN  PROVIDING  SUCH
 FIRST AID OR EMERGENCY TREATMENT.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15309-01-6

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