Bill Text: NY A09678 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires employees who provide respite care services to be certified in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)/automated external defibrillator use (AED).

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-23 - referred to mental health [A09678 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A09678-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9678
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 23, 2012
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       Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Mental Health
       AN ACT to amend the mental hygiene law, in relation to requiring employ-
         ees who provide respite care services to be certified in first aid and
         CPR/AED
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new section
    2  7.45 to read as follows:
    3  S 7.45 RESPITE CARE; FIRST AID AND CPR/AED TRAINING.
    4    (A) FOR PURPOSES OF THE SECTION, THE TERM "RESPITE  CARE"  SHALL  MEAN
    5  THE PROVISION OF INTERMITTENT TEMPORARY SUBSTITUTE CARE OF A PERSON WITH
    6  MENTAL  ILLNESS  ON  BEHALF OF AND IN THE ABSENCE OF THE PARENT OR LEGAL
    7  GUARDIAN OF SUCH PERSON, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING  RELIEF  FROM  THE
    8  STRESSES OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF PROVIDING CONTINUED CARE.
    9    (B)  EVERY  EMPLOYEE  OF THE OFFICE WHOSE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO
   10  PROVIDE RESPITE CARE SERVICES TO MENTALLY ILL PERSONS AND THEIR FAMILIES
   11  SHALL BE  CERTIFIED  IN  FIRST  AID  AND  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION
   12  (CRP)/AUTOMATED  EXTERNAL  DEFIBRILLATOR  USE (AED) WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF
   13  THE HIRING OF SUCH EMPLOYEE AND EVERY TWO YEARS THEREAFTER. THE  EXPENSE
   14  OF SUCH TRAINING SHALL BE BORNE BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   15    (C)  THE  OFFICE  IS  AUTHORIZED  AND DIRECTED TO PROMULGATE RULES AND
   16  REGULATIONS NECESSARY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS SECTION.
   17    S 2. The mental hygiene law is amended by adding a new  section  13.41
   18  to read as follows:
   19  S 13.41 RESPITE CARE; FIRST AID AND CPR/AED TRAINING.
   20    (A)  FOR  PURPOSES  OF THE SECTION, THE TERM "RESPITE CARE" SHALL MEAN
   21  THE PROVISION OF INTERMITTENT TEMPORARY SUBSTITUTE CARE OF A PERSON WITH
   22  DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ON BEHALF OF AND IN THE ABSENCE OF THE PARENT
   23  OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF SUCH PERSON, FOR THE PURPOSE  OF  PROVIDING  RELIEF
   24  FROM THE STRESSES OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF PROVIDING CONTINUED CARE.
   25    (B)  EVERY  EMPLOYEE  OF THE OFFICE WHOSE PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO
   26  PROVIDE RESPITE CARE SERVICES TO PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES
   27  AND THEIR FAMILIES SHALL BE CERTIFIED IN FIRST AID  AND  CARDIOPULMONARY
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15033-01-2
       A. 9678                             2
    1  RESUSCITATION (CPR)/AUTOMATE EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR USE (AED) WITHIN SIX
    2  MONTHS  OF  THE  HIRING OF SUCH EMPLOYEE AND EVERY TWO YEARS THEREAFTER.
    3  THE EXPENSE OF SUCH TRAINING SHALL BE BORNE BY THE DEPARTMENT.
    4    (C)  THE  OFFICE  IS  AUTHORIZED  AND DIRECTED TO PROMULGATE RULES AND
    5  REGULATIONS NECESSARY FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS SECTION.
    6    S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    7  have  become  a  law; provided, however, that effective immediately, the
    8  addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule  or  regulation  necessary
    9  for  the  implementation of this act on its effective date is authorized
   10  to be made and completed on or before such date.