Bill Text: NY A01024 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended


Bill Title: Authorizes certain law enforcement officers and firefighters to possess and administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Passed) 2019-12-12 - SIGNED CHAP.633 [A01024 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01024-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1024--B
                                                                 Cal. No. 19

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL, BUTTENSCHON, BYRNE, GALEF -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Health -- advanced  to  a  third
          reading, passed by Assembly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from
          the  Senate,  vote  reconsidered,  bill  amended,  ordered  reprinted,
          retaining its place on the order of third reading -- again amended  on
          third  reading, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of
          third reading

        AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing
          certain  law  enforcement  officers  and  firefighters  to possess and
          administer epinephrine by use of an epinephrine auto-injector device

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Gio's Law".
     3    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-c  of  the  public
     4  health law, as amended by chapter 200 of the laws of 2017, is amended to
     5  read as follows:
     6    (a)  "Eligible  person  or  entity" means: (i) an ambulance service or
     7  advanced life support first response service; a certified first  respon-
     8  der,  firefighter in a city, town or village having a population of less
     9  than one million, emergency medical technician,  or  advanced  emergency
    10  medical technician, who is employed by or an enrolled member of any such
    11  service;  (ii) a children's overnight camp as defined in subdivision one
    12  of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this  chapter,  a  summer  day
    13  camp  as  defined in subdivision two of section thirteen hundred ninety-
    14  two of this chapter, a traveling summer day camp as defined in  subdivi-
    15  sion  three  of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter or a
    16  person employed by such a camp; (iii) a school district, board of  coop-
    17  erative  educational services, county vocational education and extension
    18  board, charter school, and non-public elementary and secondary school in
    19  this state or any person employed by any such entity, or employed  by  a

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01840-06-9

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     1  contractor  of  such an entity while performing services for the entity;
     2  [or] (iv) a sports, entertainment, amusement, education, government, day
     3  care or retail facility; an educational institution, youth  organization
     4  or  sports  league;  an  establishment  that  serves  food;  or a person
     5  employed by such entity; [and] (v) a police officer or peace officer  in
     6  a  city,  town  or village having a population of less than one million;
     7  and (vi) any other person or entity designated  or  approved,  or  in  a
     8  category  designated  or approved pursuant to regulations of the commis-
     9  sioner in consultation with other appropriate agencies.
    10    § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    11  have  become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment and/or
    12  repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
    13  this  act  on  its effective date are authorized to be made on or before
    14  such date.
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