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Senate Bill S1957

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes certain persons to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device upon completion of appropriate training; requires the department of health to establish a registry

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2025-S1957 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §3000-c, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S8674
2023-2024: S2043

2025-S1957 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes certain persons to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device upon completion of appropriate training; requires the department of health to establish a registry of the names of lay persons trained in the use of an epinephrine auto-injector device.

2025-S1957 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1957 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1957
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. TEDISCO, JACKSON -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
   certain  persons  to  possess  and administer epinephrine by use of an
   epinephrine auto-injector device upon completion of appropriate train-
   ing, and to require the department of health to establish  a  registry
   of the names of lay persons trained in the use of an epinephrine auto-
   injector device
 
   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;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05388-01-5

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