NY State Senate Bill 2023-S2239

Senate Bill S2239

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated external defibrillators

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2023-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Health
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §225, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:: 2021-2022: S7892
2025-2026: S3507

2023-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires nursing homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated external defibrillators in quantities and types deemed by the commissioner to be adequate to ensure ready and appropriate access for use during emergencies.

2023-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S2239

SPONSOR: WEIK
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring nursing
homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated
external defibrillators

 
PURPOSE:

To ensure nursing homes and assisted living facilities have AEDs on site
at all times.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends section 225 of the public health law by creating a new
subdivision 5-d that would require nursing homes and assisted living
facilities provide and maintain on-site an AED.

Section 2 sets forth an effective date 90 days after the bill shall
become law.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Sudden cardiac arrest can occur at any time and to individuals without a
prior history of heart disease. According to the Occupational Health and
Safety Administration, the chances of survival from sudden cardiac death
diminish by 7-10% for each minute without immediate CPR or defibrilla-
tion. After 10 minutes, resuscitation rarely succeeds.

According to the American Heart Association, access to an automated
external defibrillators (AED) can more than double a victim's chance of
survival, and that communities and comprehensive AED programs that
includes CPR and AED training, cardiac arrest survival rates are roughly
40%. Clearly, having AEDs accessible is necessary to help save lives.

New York currently requires AEDs in a number of public settings includ-
ing schools, beaches, state office buildings, and health clubs.  One
location they are not required are communities that care for our elderly
and aging populations: nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
This legislation would require AEDs be available in those settings.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2022: S7892 Health

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None to the State.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
90 days after it shall become law.

2023-S2239 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2239
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEIK  --  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  nursing
   homes and assisted living facilities to provide and maintain automated
   external defibrillators

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 225 of the public health law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 5-d to read as follows:
   5-D. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS OF PARAGRAPH  (R)  OF  SUBDIVISION
 FIVE  OF THIS SECTION, THE SANITARY CODE SHALL PROVIDE THAT EACH NURSING
 HOME AND ASSISTED LIVING  FACILITY  LICENSED  BY  THE  DEPARTMENT  SHALL
 PROVIDE  AND  MAINTAIN  ON-SITE  AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR (AED)
 EQUIPMENT, AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  SECTION
 THREE  THOUSAND-B OF THIS CHAPTER, IN QUANTITIES AND TYPES DEEMED BY THE
 COMMISSIONER TO BE ADEQUATE TO ENSURE READY AND APPROPRIATE  ACCESS  FOR
 USE DURING EMERGENCIES. SUCH NURSING HOME AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES
 AND  STAFF  SHALL  BE  SUBJECT  TO  THE  REQUIREMENTS AND LIMITATIONS OF
 SECTION THREE THOUSAND-B OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05793-01-3

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