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Senate Bill S5043

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times

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2025-S5043 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Add §476, Lab L; amd §201, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6286
2021-2022: S2785
2023-2024: S3238

2025-S5043 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times and to store such kits in an accessible location and to make such kits available for use by any person who enters the premises of the business.

2025-S5043 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5043 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5043
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 18, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN  ACT to amend the labor law and the public health law, in relation to
   requiring small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the
   premises of the business at all times

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  labor  law is amended by adding a new section 476 to
 read as follows:
   § 476. FIRST AID KITS IN SMALL BUSINESSES. ALL BUSINESSES  WITH  FIFTY
 OR  LESS  EMPLOYEES SHALL PROVIDE EQUIPMENT AND MAINTAIN ON THE PREMISES
 AT ALL TIMES, A COMPLETE FIRST AID KIT  CONTAINING  ALL  THAT  EQUIPMENT
 REASONABLY  CALCULATED  TO  PROVIDE  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  AID  TO INJURED
 PERSONS. SUCH FIRST AID KITS SHALL BE STORED  IN  A  READILY  ACCESSIBLE
 LOCATION  AND AVAILABLE FOR USE BY ANY PERSON WHO ENTERS THE PREMISES OF
 THE BUSINESS.
   § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 201 of the public health law is  amended
 by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
   (Z)  SUPERVISE AND REGULATE COMPLIANCE WITH FIRST AID KIT REQUIREMENTS
 PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  FOUR  HUNDRED  SEVENTY-SIX OF THE LABOR LAW. SUCH
 COMPLIANCE SHALL BE VISUALLY CONFIRMED AND OBSERVED IN CONJUNCTION  WITH
 ANY  OTHER HEALTH OR SAFETY INSPECTION PERFORMED BY THE DEPARTMENT OR BY
 CODE ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL, AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE  HUNDRED  SEVEN-
 TY-SIX-A  OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF COMPLIANCE IS
 CONFIRMED BY CODE ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL, SUCH PERSONNEL SHALL NOTIFY THE
 DEPARTMENT OF COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION FOUR HUNDRED  SEVENTY-SIX  OF  THE
 LABOR LAW.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09269-01-5

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