Bill Text: NY A11369 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-10-19 - referred to health [A11369 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A11369-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          11369
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    October 19, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. L. Rosen-
          thal) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
        AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation  to  authorizing  law
          enforcement  officers  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.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 1 of section 3000-c of the
     2  public health law, as amended by chapter 200 of the  laws  of  2017,  is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a)  "Eligible  person  or  entity" means: (i) an ambulance service or
     5  advanced life support first response service; a certified first  respon-
     6  der, emergency medical technician, or advanced emergency medical techni-
     7  cian, who is employed by or an enrolled member of any such service; (ii)
     8  a  children's  overnight  camp  as defined in subdivision one of section
     9  thirteen hundred ninety-two of  this  chapter,  a  summer  day  camp  as
    10  defined  in  subdivision  two  of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of
    11  this chapter, a traveling summer day  camp  as  defined  in  subdivision
    12  three of section thirteen hundred ninety-two of this chapter or a person
    13  employed  by  such a camp; (iii) a school district, board of cooperative
    14  educational services, county vocational education and  extension  board,
    15  charter  school,  and non-public elementary and secondary school in this
    16  state or any person employed by  any  such  entity,  or  employed  by  a
    17  contractor  of  such an entity while performing services for the entity;
    18  [or] (iv) a sports, entertainment, amusement, education, government, day
    19  care or retail facility; an educational institution, youth  organization
    20  or  sports  league;  an  establishment  that  serves  food;  or a person
    21  employed by such entity; [and] (v) a law enforcement officer;  and  (vi)
    22  any  other  person  or  entity  designated or approved, or in a category
    23  designated or approved pursuant to regulations of  the  commissioner  in
    24  consultation with other appropriate agencies.
    25    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law. Effective immediately the addition, amendment  and/or
    27  repeal  of  any  rule  or regulation necessary for the implementation of
    28  this act on its effective date are authorized to be made  on  or  before
    29  such date.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16431-01-8
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