NY State Senate Bill 2023-S9608

Senate Bill S9608

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to installation and maintenance of automated external defibrillators on trains operated by the metropolitan transportation authority

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May 16, 2024	referred to transportation

2023-S9608 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:: Senate Transportation
Law Section:: Public Authorities Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §§1266-a & 1266-b, Pub Auth L

2023-S9608 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the installation and maintenance of automated external defibrillators on trains operated by the metropolitan transportation authority.

2023-S9608 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S9608

SPONSOR: CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the public authorities law, in relation to installation
and maintenance of automated external defibrillators on trains operated
by the metropolitan transportation authority

 
PURPOSE:

Requires all trains and stations operated by the Long Island Railroad
Company have automated external defibrillators.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1: Paragraph a of subdivision 1 of section 1266-b of the public
authorities law, as amended by chapter 396 of the laws of 2005. Provide
and maintain on each train aid at each station an automated external
defibrillator.

Section 2: Subdivision 1 section 1266-f of the public authorities law,

as added by chapter 581 of the laws of 1985. Provide and maintain on
each train and at each station an automated external defibrillator.

Section 3: Provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

According to the American Heart Association's Heart and Stroke Statis-
tics 2022 Update, cardiac arrest remains a public health crisis. There
are more than 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in the
U.S., with nearly 90% of them being fatal.

Receiving immediate CPR and an electric shock from a defibrillator are
the key drivers of survival. CPR can help keep a stricken individual
alive until the AED can be brought to the scene and deployed. But even
if CPR is properly administered, for every minute there is no defibril-
lator during a cardiac arrest, the person's chance of survival dimin-
ishes by about 10 percent.

According to a recent article in the Examiner, the United States has a
patchwork of regulations across the 50 states when it comes to require-
ments for AEDs in public places. In New York, all schools must have
AEDs, camps and gyms are also required to have AEDs, as are beaches and
pools with lifeguards.

But there are no requirements for public transportation.

With approximately 135 million people using LIRR and Metro-North yearly,
the need for defibrillators is obvious.

This bill will help to save lives by requiring all trains and stations
operated by the Long Island Railroad Company and the Metro-North Commu-
ter Railroad Company have automated external defibrillators.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

New bill
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a law.
Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule
or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effec-
tive date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such
effective date.

2023-S9608 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9608
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 16, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK  --  read  twice and ordered
   printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Trans-
   portation
 
 AN  ACT to amend the public authorities law, in relation to installation
   and maintenance of automated external defibrillators on  trains  oper-
   ated by the metropolitan transportation authority

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Section 1266-a of the public authorities law, as added  by
 chapter 928 of the laws of 1977, is amended to read as follows:
   §  1266-a. Medical emergency services. The authority is hereby author-
 ized and directed to prepare and develop a  medical  emergency  services
 program  to be implemented at a time to be specified in such program for
 the benefit  of  persons  utilizing  transportation  and  other  related
 services  of  the authority. Such program [may] SHALL include but not be
 limited to provision for  the  following:  The  training  of  designated
 employees  in  first  aid, emergency techniques and procedures, handling
 and positioning of stricken commuters, [and] knowledge of procedures and
 equipment  used  for  respiratory  and  cardiac  emergencies,  AND   THE
 PROVISION  AND AVAILABILITY OF AT LEAST ONE AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRIL-
 LATOR, AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE THOUSAND-B OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH  LAW,
 ON  EACH  TRAIN OPERATED BY THE AUTHORITY IN A MANNER THAT IS IN ACCORD-
 ANCE WITH THE REQUIREMENTS AND PROTECTIONS OF SUCH SECTION  THREE  THOU-
 SAND-B.  Such  program  shall  be submitted to the legislature not later
 than one hundred eighty days next succeeding the effective date of  this
 section.
   §  2.  Paragraph  a  of  subdivision 1 of section 1266-b of the public
 authorities law, as amended by chapter 396  of  the  laws  of  2005,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   a.  The  authority  in  consultation with the Long Island Rail Road is
 hereby authorized and directed  to  implement  a  comprehensive  medical
 emergency  services  program,  including an emergency response protocol,
 not later than September first, two thousand five, for  the  benefit  of
 persons  utilizing transportation and other related services of the Long
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

                                                            LBD14569-01-4
 S. 9608                             2
 
 Island Rail Road. Such program shall  include  but  not  be  limited  to
 provision  for  the  following:  The training of designated employees in
 first aid, emergency techniques and procedures, handling and positioning
 of  stricken  commuters,  knowledge of procedures and equipment used for
 respiratory and cardiac emergencies, AS WELL AS THE PROVISION AND AVAIL-
 ABILITY OF AT LEAST ONE AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR, AS DEFINED  IN
 SECTION  THREE  THOUSAND-B OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH LAW, ON EACH TRAIN OPER-
 ATED BY THE LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD IN A MANNER THAT IS IN ACCORDANCE WITH
 THE REQUIREMENTS AND PROTECTIONS OF SUCH SECTION THREE  THOUSAND-B,  and
 an emergency response protocol for all employees.
   §  3. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become a
 law.

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