What's happening
This bill requires school cafeteria supervisors to hold CPR certification and receive Heimlich maneuver training.
Why it matters
Statewide requirement. Teachers and other personnel overseeing school cafeterias across New York would face new emergency-training requirements.
Annual verification. Before each school year, covered staff would submit evidence of current CPR knowledge and skills and Heimlich maneuver training to their chief school officer.
Certification standard. Staff would need a valid CPR certificate, with current knowledge and skills meeting requirements certified by the education commissioner.
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Who cares
Supervising teachers and lunch monitors
Those overseeing cafeterias would need CPR certification and Heimlich maneuver training.
Chief school officers
They would receive staff training and CPR documentation before each school year.
Education commissioner
The bill ties current CPR knowledge and skills to requirements certified by the commissioner.
Students eating in school cafeterias
Their supervising staff would be required to have training for cardiac and choking emergencies.
Headline styles
Require Cafeteria Staff Emergency Training
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
3 Co-sponsors
3 Multi-sponsors
History
- Held for consideration in education
- Print number 2969a
- Amend (t) and recommit to education
- Referred to education
- Referred to education
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
2969--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 23, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN, HARRIS, McDONOUGH, CASTORINA, ERRIGO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CROUCH, GIGLIO, MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the requiring of CPR certification and Heimlich maneuver training among teachers and lunch monitors in school cafeterias
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 3001-e to read as follows:
§ 3001-e. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification and Heimlich maneuver training for teachers and lunch monitors in cafeterias. On and after the effective date of this section, it shall be required of supervising teachers and other personnel overseeing a school cafeteria, to hold a valid certificate in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and to be trained in the administration of the Heimlich maneuver. Prior to the start of each school year, supervising teachers and other personnel shall provide valid evidence to their chief school officer that (i) their cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills are current pursuant to the requirements certified by the commissioner and (ii) that they have received training in the administration of the Heimlich maneuver.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD07725-02-8
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