Assembly Bill A645

                             
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                                    645
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  authorizing  the
   presence of epinephrine auto-injector devices on pre-school premises

   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 472 of the laws of 2024, 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 county, city, town or village having a  population
 of  less  than  two  million  provided such county is not wholly located
 within a city with a population of  more  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  subdivision  three  of  section  thirteen
 hundred  ninety-two of this chapter or a person employed by such a camp;
 (iii) a school district,  board  of  cooperative  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,  enter-
 tainment, 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 county,  city,  town  or  village
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 having a population of less than two million provided such county is not
 wholly located within a city with a population of more than one million;
 (vi)  forest rangers, park rangers and environmental conservation police
 officers;  [and]  (vii)  PRE-SCHOOL FACILITIES OR ANY PERSON EMPLOYED BY
 SUCH FACILITIES; AND (VIII) any other person  or  entity  designated  or
 approved,  or  in  a  category  designated or approved pursuant to regu-
 lations of the commissioner in consultation with other appropriate agen-
 cies.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.