Bill Text: NY S03238 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times and to store such kits in an accessible location and to make such kits available for use by any person who enters the premises of the business.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO LABOR [S03238 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S03238-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3238

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 30, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor

        AN  ACT to amend the labor law and the public health law, in relation to
          requiring small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the
          premises of the business at all times

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

     1    Section  1.  The  labor  law is amended by adding a new section 476 to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 476. First aid kits in small businesses. All businesses  with  fifty
     4  or  less  employees shall provide equipment and maintain on the premises
     5  at all times, a complete first aid kit  containing  all  that  equipment
     6  reasonably  calculated  to  provide  emergency  medical  aid  to injured
     7  persons. Such first aid kits shall be stored  in  a  readily  accessible
     8  location  and available for use by any person who enters the premises of
     9  the business.
    10    § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 201 of the public health law is  amended
    11  by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
    12    (z)  supervise and regulate compliance with first aid kit requirements
    13  pursuant  to  section  four  hundred  seventy-six of the labor law. Such
    14  compliance shall be visually confirmed and observed in conjunction  with
    15  any  other health or safety inspection performed by the department or by
    16  code enforcement personnel, as defined in section three  hundred  seven-
    17  ty-six-a  of the executive law; provided, however, that if compliance is
    18  confirmed by code enforcement personnel, such personnel shall notify the
    19  department of compliance with section four hundred  seventy-six  of  the
    20  labor law.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07824-01-3