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Senate Bill S5638

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to requiring CPR and AED training by youth league coaches

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2025-S5638 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3569
Current Committee:
Senate Health
Law Section:
Public Health Law
Laws Affected:
Add §2596, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S8849, A4944

2025-S5638 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to requiring CPR and AED training by youth league coaches; requires youth league coaches to be trained in adult and child CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator; provides current coaches have one year from the effective date of the law to receive such training; provides that a person who is unable to complete a training due to a physical disability may coach as long as a person who has completed a training is present at all times.

2025-S5638 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5638 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5638
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. BAILEY, SALAZAR -- 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 requiring CPR  and
   AED training by youth league coaches
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
 2596 to read as follows:
   § 2596. CPR AND AED INSTRUCTION; YOUTH LEAGUES. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF
 THIS SECTION:
   (A)  "YOUTH  LEAGUE"  MEANS YOUTH RECREATION SPORTS LEAGUES OTHER THAN
 SCHOOL LEAGUES, INCLUDING YOUTH CLUB  SPORTS,  TRAVEL  TEAMS,  COMMUNITY
 BASED ORGANIZATION LEAGUES, AND UNAFFILIATED LEAGUES; AND
   (B)  "YOUTH  RECREATION" MEANS ATHLETIC ACTIVITY WITH PARTICIPANTS WHO
 ARE ALL EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD OR YOUNGER AND  SHALL  INCLUDE  GRADE  SCHOOL
 THROUGH  HIGH  SCHOOL  ATHLETIC  PROGRAMS  REGARDLESS  OF THE AGE OF THE
 PARTICIPANTS.
   2. ON AND AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION, TO  COACH  IN  ANY
 YOUTH  LEAGUE,  IT SHALL BE REQUIRED OF SUCH COACHES, EXCEPT AS PROVIDED
 IN SUBDIVISION THREE OR FOUR OF THIS SECTION, TO COMPLETE A TRAINING  IN
 CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION AND AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR (CPR
 AND AED) KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS APPROVED BY  THE  COMMISSIONER.  ANY  SUCH
 COURSE  OF STUDY OR EQUIVALENT REQUIREMENTS SHALL INCLUDE INSTRUCTION IN
 RECOGNIZING SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS OF  CARDIAC  ARREST  AND  SUDDEN  CARDIAC
 ARREST  AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF ADULT AND CHILD CARDIOPULMONARY RESUS-
 CITATION AND THE USE OF AN AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR.   PRIOR  TO
 THE START OF EACH SPORTS SEASON, COACHES SHALL PROVIDE VALID EVIDENCE TO
 THEIR  YOUTH  LEAGUE THAT THEIR ADULT AND CHILD CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCI-
 TATION AND AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR  KNOWLEDGE  AND  SKILLS  ARE
 CURRENT PURSUANT TO THE REQUIREMENTS APPROVED BY THE COMMISSIONER.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06658-01-5
 S. 5638                             2

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