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                                   8554
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 8, 2024
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 Introduced  by  M. of A. OTIS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  requiring  camps
   and youth programs have at least one automated external defibrillator
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 1 of  section  3000-f  of  the
 public  health  law,  as added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending
 the public health law relating  to  requiring  camps  and  youth  sports
 programs to establish an automated external defibrillator implementation
 plan,  as proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 7424 and A. 366-A, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (d) "Camp" means a children's overnight  camp,  summer  day  camp,  or
 traveling summer day camp, as such terms are defined in section thirteen
 hundred ninety-two of this chapter, THAT IS SUBJECT TO REGULATION BY THE
 DEPARTMENT.
   §  2.  Subdivision  2  of  section 3000-f of the public health law, as
 added by a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the  public  health  law
 relating  to  requiring  camps and youth sports programs to establish an
 automated external defibrillator implementation  plan,  as  proposed  in
 legislative  bills  numbers  S. 7424 and A. 366-A, is amended to read as
 follows:
   2. Within one hundred eighty  days  of  the  effective  date  of  this
 section,  [a  camp  or]  EACH  CAMP,  AND EACH youth sports program THAT
 EITHER HOSTS OR PARTICIPATES IN GAMES, MATCHES, TOURNAMENTS, LEAGUES, OR
 SIMILAR ACTIVITIES IN WHICH AT LEAST FIVE TEAMS ARE PARTICIPATING, shall
 establish [and submit to the department of health] an automated external
 defibrillator implementation plan describing how  the  camp  or  program
 will:
   (a)  make  available  an  automated external defibrillator OR DESCRIBE
 REASONABLE ACCESS TO AN AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR at every  camp,
 game and practice; and
   (b)  USE  BEST  EFFORTS TO ensure that there is at least one employee,
 volunteer, coach, umpire or other qualified adult who is present at each
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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 such camp, game and practice who has successfully completed  a  training
 course  within  the  preceding  twenty-four  months  of  each  such camp
 session, game and practice.
   (c)  Each  camp  and youth sports program shall [include in their plan
 details for maintaining] MAINTAIN records that such camp or youth sports
 program possesses [a  sufficient  number  of]  AT  LEAST  ONE  automated
 external  [defibrillators to meet the requirements of paragraphs (a) and
 (b) of this subdivision] DEFIBRILLATOR.
   (d) Implementation plans shall  include  an  equipment  checklist  and
 cardiac emergency protocol for when cardiac emergency incidents occur.
   (E)  IMPLEMENTATION PLANS CAN INCLUDE AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR
 ACCESS PROVIDED BY ATHLETIC FACILITIES, PLAYING FIELDS OR SITE FOR GAMES
 OR PRACTICES WHERE THE  OPERATOR  OF  THE  FACILITY  PROVIDES  AUTOMATED
 EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR ACCESS AT THEIR LOCATION.
   §  3.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2023 amending the public  health  law
 relating  to  requiring  camps and youth sports programs to establish an
 automated external defibrillator implementation  plan,  as  proposed  in
 legislative bills numbers S. 7424 and A. 366-A, takes effect.