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Assembly Bill A7536

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to first aid instruction for students in grades nine through twelve

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2025-A7536 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4673
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §819, Ed L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10630, S9645

2025-A7536 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires high schools to teach first aid instruction to students in grades nine through twelve.

2025-A7536 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7536
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Education
 
 AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring high schools
   to provide a course in basic first aid
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 819 to
 read as follows:
   §  819.  FIRST  AID CURRICULUM OR INSTRUCTION.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL
 ESTABLISH A CURRICULUM OR INSTRUCTION  ON  FIRST  AID  FOR  HIGH  SCHOOL
 STUDENTS  IN  GRADES NINE THROUGH TWELVE WHICH SHALL INCLUDE, BUT NOT BE
 LIMITED TO, RECOGNIZING SHOCK, MINOR WOUND CARE, CHOKING,  MINOR  BURNS,
 AND  CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION (CPR) FROM AN APPROVED PROVIDER, WITH
 THE OPTION TO ALLOW STUDENTS TO BECOME CPR CERTIFIED. SUCH CURRICULUM OR
 INSTRUCTION SHALL BE DESIGNED TO BE  ADDED  TO  AN  EXISTING  COURSE  OF
 INSTRUCTION,  SUCH  AS  HEALTH,  OR  BE PROVIDED TO STUDENTS AS AN AFTER
 SCHOOL ELECTIVE INSTRUCTION, OR  ANY  OTHER  MANNER  SUCH  SCHOOL  DEEMS
 APPROPRIATE.
   §  2.  This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding
 the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09364-01-5

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