Assembly Bill A3798

Signed By Governor
2011-2012 Legislative Session

Requires health clubs to provide automated external defibrillators during business hours when they are staffed

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A3798 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4485
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง627-a, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A11458, S8366

2011-A3798 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires health clubs to provide automated external defibrillators during business hours when they are staffed.

2011-A3798 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  3798

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 27, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. SPANO, STEVENSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
  A. PHEFFER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation  to  health  clubs
  providing  automated  external  defibrillators  on site during staffed
  operating hours

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 627-a of the general business law,
as  added  by  chapter  186  of  the laws of 2004, is amended to read as
follows:
  1. Every health club as defined under paragraph b of  subdivision  one
of section three thousand-d of the public health law whose membership is
five  hundred  persons  or  more shall have on the premises at least one
automated external defibrillator and shall have in  attendance,  at  all
times  during STAFFED business hours, at least one individual performing
employment or individual acting as an authorized volunteer who  holds  a
valid certification of completion of a course in the study of the opera-
tion  of AEDs and a valid certification of the completion of a course in
the training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation provided by  a  nationally
recognized organization or association.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07868-01-1

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