Bill Text: NY A02338 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 2338 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires health clubs with a membership of 50 or more to have at least 1 automated external defibrillator on the premises which is accessible to the staff, members and guests.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-13 - reported referred to codes [A02338 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02338-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2338
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the requirement
          that certain health clubs shall have at least one  automated  external
          defibrillator available upon the premises
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 627-a of the general business law,
     2  as amended by chapter 31 of the laws of 2011,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  Every  health club as defined under paragraph b of subdivision one
     5  of section three thousand-d of the public health law whose membership is
     6  [five hundred] fifty persons or more shall have available on  the  prem-
     7  ises in a manner that provides obvious and ready accessibility to staff,
     8  members  and  guests  at  least one automated external defibrillator and
     9  shall have in attendance, at all times during staffed business hours, at
    10  least one individual performing employment or individual  acting  as  an
    11  authorized  volunteer who holds a valid certification of completion of a
    12  course in the study of the operation of AEDs and a  valid  certification
    13  of  the completion of a course in the training of cardiopulmonary resus-
    14  citation provided by a nationally  recognized  organization  or  associ-
    15  ation.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    17  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00380-01-9