Assembly Bill A596

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Requires public schools to display a poster depicting first aid procedures used to treat a person who is choking

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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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2017-A596 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1505
Current Committee:
Assembly Education
Law Section:
Education Law
Laws Affected:
Add §409-m, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A4137, S7986
2019-2020: A829, S1690

2017-A596 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires public schools to display a poster depicting first aid procedures used to treat a person who is choking.

2017-A596 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    596
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, ORTIZ, M. G. MILLER, MOSLEY, PICHARDO,
   GOTTFRIED,  COOK,  ARROYO,  PERRY, STECK, BRABENEC, LUPINACCI, JOYNER,
   RAMOS, BARRON, HOOPER, THIELE, CURRAN, GRAF, RAIA,  McDONOUGH,  WEPRIN
   --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. BLAKE, DILAN, GALEF, SALADINO --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Education

 AN ACT to amend the education  law,  in  relation  to  requiring  public
   schools to display a poster depicting the first aid procedures used to
   treat upper airway obstructions by foreign objects
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative intent. It is important that teachers, adminis-
 trators and students in the state of New York are  well  informed  about
 first  aid  responses  to  treat  upper  airway  obstructions by foreign
 objects as it is reported that at least one child dies from  choking  on
 food every five days in the United States, and more than 10,000 children
 are  taken to a hospital emergency room each year for food-choking inju-
 ries. It is the intent of this legislature to help prevent future deaths
 resulting from  upper  airway  obstructions  by  expanding  the  choking
 prevention requirement of section 2500-i of the public health law, known
 as J.T.'s Law, by requiring public schools to post a visible poster that
 graphically  depicts the first aid procedures used to treat upper airway
 obstructions caused by food or foreign objects.
   § 2. The education law is amended by adding a  new  section  409-m  to
 read as follows:
   §  409-M.  CHOKING  POSTER.  1.  EVERY PUBLIC SCHOOL INCLUDING CHARTER
 SCHOOLS SHALL POST A VISIBLE POSTER GRAPHICALLY DEPICTING THE FIRST  AID
 PROCEDURES  USED  TO  TREAT  UPPER AIRWAY OBSTRUCTIONS CAUSED BY FOOD OR
 FOREIGN OBJECTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT  LIMITED  TO  BACK  BLOWS,  ABDOMINAL
 THRUSTS AND CHEST COMPRESSIONS.
   2.  THE COMMISSIONER SHALL ADOPT RULES AND REGULATIONS IN CONSULTATION
 WITH THE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH RELATING  TO  THE  POSTING  REQUIRED  BY
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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