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A03569 Summary:

BILL NOA03569 

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SAME ASSAME AS S05638

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSRKay, Lemondes

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §2596, Pub Health L

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Relates to requiring CPR and AED training by youth league coaches; requires youth league coaches to be trained in adult and child CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator; provides current coaches have one year from the effective date of the law to receive such training; provides that a person who is unable to complete a training due to a physical disability may coach as long as a person who has completed a training is present at all times.

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BILL NOA03569 

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01/28/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3569

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 28, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring CPR and
 AED training by youth league coaches

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section
 2 2596 to read as follows:
 3 § 2596. CPR and AED instruction; youth leagues. 1. For the purposes of
 4 this section:
 5 (a) "youth league" means youth recreation sports leagues other than
 6 school leagues, including youth club sports, travel teams, community
 7 based organization leagues, and unaffiliated leagues; and
 8 (b) "youth recreation" means athletic activity with participants who
 9 are all eighteen years old or younger and shall include grade school
 10 through high school athletic programs regardless of the age of the
 11 participants.
 12 2. On and after the effective date of this section, to coach in any
 13 youth league, it shall be required of such coaches, except as provided
 14 in subdivision three or four of this section, to complete a training in
 15 cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator (CPR
 16 and AED) knowledge and skills approved by the commissioner. Any such
 17 course of study or equivalent requirements shall include instruction in
 18 recognizing signs and symptoms of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac
 19 arrest and the administration of adult and child cardiopulmonary resus-
 20 citation and the use of an automated external defibrillator. Prior to
 21 the start of each sports season, coaches shall provide valid evidence to
 22 their youth league that their adult and child cardiopulmonary resusci-
 23 tation and automated external defibrillator knowledge and skills are
 24 current pursuant to the requirements approved by the commissioner.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06658-01-5

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 1 3. Except as provided in subdivision four of this section, persons who
 2 have been coaches of youth league sports on the effective date of this
 3 section who have not completed a training in CPR and AED knowledge and
 4 skills pursuant to subdivision two of this section, or met equivalent
 5 requirements as approved by the commissioner, may continue to coach such
 6 sports, provided, however, that such coaches do complete such a training
 7 as soon as practicable after the effective date of this section but not
 8 later than twelve months thereafter, provided, however, that the commis-
 9 sioner shall have the authority to establish by rule or regulation an
 10 additional time schedule for compliance with this section.
 11 4. A person who is unable to complete a training in CPR and AED know-
 12 ledge and skills pursuant to subdivision two of this section, or has not
 13 met equivalent requirements as approved by the commissioner, due to a
 14 physical disability may coach any youth league sport if there is another
 15 person who has completed a training pursuant to subdivision two of this
 16 section and is present with such person who is unable to complete such a
 17 training at all times during the y