NY State Senate Bill 2023-S7424

Senate Bill S7424

Signed By Governor

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Requires camps and youth sports programs to establish an automated external defibrillator implementation plan

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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Nov 24, 2023	approval memo.36 signed chap.681
Nov 13, 2023	delivered to governor
Jun 07, 2023	returned to senate passed assembly ordered to third reading rules cal.317 substituted for a366a
Jun 06, 2023	referred to health delivered to assembly passed senate ordered to third reading cal.1660 committee discharged and committed to rules
May 24, 2023	referred to health

Votes

- Jun 6, 2023 - Floor Vote
  S7424
  
  62
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  1
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Floor Vote: Jun 6, 2023
      
      aye (62)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Ashby
      
      Bailey
      
      Borrello
      
      Breslin
      
      Brisport
      
      Brouk
      
      Canzoneri-Fitzpatrick
      
      Chu
      
      Cleare
      
      Comrie
      
      Cooney
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Gonzalez
      
      Gounardes
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hinchey
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Jackson
      
      Kavanagh
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mannion
      
      Martinez
      
      Martins
      
      Mattera
      
      May
      
      Mayer
      
      Murray
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Oberacker
      
      Ortt
      
      Palumbo
      
      Parker
      
      Persaud
      
      Ramos
      
      Rhoads
      
      Rivera
      
      Rolison
      
      Ryan
      
      Salazar
      
      Sanders Jr.
      
      Scarcella-Spanton
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Serrano
      
      Skoufis
      
      Stavisky
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Tedisco
      
      Thomas
      
      Walczyk
      
      Webb
      
      Weber
      
      Weik
      
      excused (1)
      
      Felder
  Jun 6, 2023 - Rules Committee Vote
  S7424
  
  19
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  2
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jun 6, 2023
      
      aye (19)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Bailey
      
      Breslin
      
      Comrie
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Helming
      
      Kennedy
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mayer
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Stewart-Cousins
      
      Thomas
      
      aye wr (2)
      
      Griffo
      
      Stec

2023-S7424 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A366
Law Section:: Public Health Law
Laws Affected:: Add §3000-f, Pub Health L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: A10322

2023-S7424 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires camps and youth sports programs to establish an automated external defibrillator implementation plan; requires camps and youth sports programs to have at least one person trained to use such defibrillators at camps, games and practices.

2023-S7424 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S7424

SPONSOR: MAYER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring camps
and youth sports programs to establish an automated external defibrilla-
tor implementation plan

 
PURPOSE:

This legislation will amend the public health law, to require camps and
youth sports programs to establish and submit to the department of
health an automated external defibrillator implementation plan.  The
plan shall describe how AEDs will be made available at every camp, game
or practice and how camps and youth sports programs shall ensure that at
least one employee, volunteer, coach, umpire or other qualified adult
who has successfully completed a training course in the operation of an
automated external defibrillator, is present.

 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends the public health law by adding section 3000-f.  Subdi-
vision 1 includes relevant definitions.

Subdivision 2 sets that a camp or youth sports program shall establish
and submit to the department of health an automated external.  defibril-
lator implementation plan. Such plan shall describe how the camp or
youth sports program will make an automated external defibrillator
available at every camp, game or practice; ensure that there is at least
one qualified adult who is present and has completed a training course;
and that such camp or youth sports program shall maintain records that
they meet those requirements. The bill also requires such plans to
include an equipment checklist and cardiac protocols for when cardiac
emergency incidents occur; and that such plans shall be done in accord-
ance with the requirements and protections of 3000-b of this chapter.

Section two provides that this act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The American Heart Association (AHA) reported in 2018 that there are
more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests annually in the United
States, nearly 90 percent of which are fatal. Death can result within
minutes from cardiac arrest if proper steps -- such as performing
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and using an automated external
defibrillator (AED)-- to shock the heart and restore a normal heart
rhythm are not taken immediately. 2019 data shows that 38.3k of out-of-
hospital cardiac arrests are witnessed by a layperson, and only 12.7% by
an EMS provider. Trained non-medical personnel can use AEDs, which are
simplified and portable electronic medical devices, to treat a person in
cardiac arrest using voice prompts, lights and text messages to walk the
responder through the steps.

According to Saving Active Hearts, a non-profit organization founded in
2019 to increase public awareness of the need to create response plans
to cardiac emergencies, statistics show the alarming reality of the risk
of death from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) in children younger than 18
years old. Over 7,000 children experience out of hospital cardiac arrest
every year. Although sudden cardiac arrest In student athletes may be
more visible, sudden cardiac death also occurs in young non-athletes.
Sports-related SCAs account for 39% of SCAs in children ages 18 years
old or younger.

This legislation requires that every camp or youth sports program estab-
lish and submit to the department of health an automated external defi-
brillator implementation plan. The plan must detail how AEDs will be
made available at every camp, game or practice and how the camp will
ensure that there is at least one employee, volunteer, coach, umpire or
other qualified adult who has successfully completed a training course
within twenty-four months at each such camp session, game or practice.
By ensuring that AEDs are available in camps, in gyms and on the,
fields, lives will be saved.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2023-S7424 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7424
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAYER  -- 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  camps
   and youth sports programs to establish an automated external defibril-
   lator implementation plan

   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
 3000-f to read as follows:
   §  3000-F.  AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL  DEFIBRILLATOR; CAMPS AND YOUTH SPORTS
 PROGRAMS. 1. DEFINITIONS.  AS USED IN THIS SECTION, UNLESS  THE  CONTEXT
 CLEARLY REQUIRES OTHERWISE, THE FOLLOWING TERMS HAVE THE FOLLOWING MEAN-
 INGS:
   (A)   "AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL  DEFIBRILLATOR"  MEANS  A  MEDICAL  DEVICE,
 APPROVED BY THE UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, THAT: (I) IS
 CAPABLE OF RECOGNIZING THE PRESENCE OR ABSENCE IN A PATIENT OF VENTRICU-
 LAR FIBRILLATION AND RAPID VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; (II) IS  CAPABLE  OF
 DETERMINING, WITHOUT INTERVENTION BY AN OPERATOR, WHETHER DEFIBRILLATION
 SHOULD  BE PERFORMED ON A PATIENT; (III) UPON DETERMINING THAT DEFIBRIL-
 LATION SHOULD BE PERFORMED, AUTOMATICALLY CHARGES AND REQUESTS  DELIVERY
 OF  AN  ELECTRICAL  IMPULSE  TO  A  PATIENT'S HEART; AND (IV) THEN, UPON
 ACTION BY AN OPERATOR, DELIVERS AN APPROPRIATE ELECTRICAL IMPULSE  TO  A
 PATIENT'S HEART TO PERFORM DEFIBRILLATION.
   (B)  "TRAINING  COURSE" MEANS A COURSE APPROVED BY A NATIONALLY-RECOG-
 NIZED ORGANIZATION OR THE STATE EMERGENCY MEDICAL  SERVICES  COUNCIL  IN
 THE OPERATION OF AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS.
   (C) "NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED ORGANIZATION" MEANS A NATIONAL ORGANIZATION
 APPROVED  BY THE DEPARTMENT FOR THE PURPOSE OF TRAINING PEOPLE IN USE OF
 AN AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02973-07-3
 S. 7424                             2

   (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.
   (E)  "YOUTH  SPORTS  PROGRAM"  MEANS  ANY LEAGUE OR RECREATION PROGRAM
 ORGANIZED TO PROVIDE GROUP ATHLETIC ACTIVITY TO INDIVIDUALS UNDER SEVEN-
 TEEN YEARS OLD OR PROGRAMS PROVIDING ATHLETIC ACTIVITY FOR  HIGH  SCHOOL
 STUDENTS  REGARDLESS  OF  THE  AGE OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF SUCH PROGRAMS.
 PUBLIC SCHOOL ATHLETIC PROGRAMS SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS  OF  SECTION
 NINE  HUNDRED SEVENTEEN OF THE EDUCATION LAW SHALL NOT BE SUBJECT TO THE
 REQUIREMENTS OF THIS SECTION.
   2. WITHIN ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY  DAYS  OF  THE  EFFECTIVE  DATE  OF  THIS
 SECTION,  A  CAMP  OR YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAM SHALL ESTABLISH AND SUBMIT TO
 THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AN AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR IMPLEMENTA-
 TION PLAN DESCRIBING HOW THE CAMP OR PROGRAM WILL:
   (A) MAKE AVAILABLE AN AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR AT EVERY  CAMP,
 GAME AND PRACTICE; AND
   (B)  ENSURE  THAT  THERE  IS  AT LEAST ONE EMPLOYEE, VOLUNTEER, COACH,
 UMPIRE OR OTHER QUALIFIED ADULT WHO IS PRESENT AT EACH 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 PRAC-
 TICE.
   (C) EACH CAMP AND YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAM SHALL  INCLUDE  IN  THEIR  PLAN
 DETAILS  FOR  MAINTAINING RECORDS THAT SUCH CAMP OR YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAM
 POSSESSES A SUFFICIENT NUMBER OF AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL  DEFIBRILLATORS  TO
 MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF PARAGRAPHS (A) AND (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION.
   (D)  IMPLEMENTATION  PLANS  SHALL  INCLUDE  AN EQUIPMENT CHECKLIST AND
 CARDIAC EMERGENCY PROTOCOL FOR WHEN CARDIAC EMERGENCY INCIDENTS OCCUR.
   3. IMPLEMENTATION OF AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR PLANS  SHALL  BE
 DONE  IN  ACCORDANCE  WITH  THE  REQUIREMENTS AND PROTECTIONS OF SECTION
 3000-B OF THIS ARTICLE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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