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This bill requires all capable New York high school students to complete CPR training as a graduation requirement.
Why it matters
Expands access and equity in lifesaving skills. By making CPR training a requirement (instead of voluntary), the bill ensures all capable students—regardless of school resources or student initiative—receive this essential training, potentially reducing disparities in emergency preparedness.
Creates a future-ready, safer population. With every graduating class, more New Yorkers will have the knowledge to act in cardiac emergencies, increasing the likelihood of bystander intervention and improved survival rates in public spaces and homes.
Sets clear quality standards for instruction. The law mandates that CPR training must meet or exceed American Heart Association or American Red Cross standards, ensuring students receive reputable, effective instruction rather than minimal or inconsistent training.
Requires districts to provide resources. Schools must allocate necessary facilities, time, and materials for CPR instruction, which could prompt investments in teacher training and equipment—potentially benefiting broader health education efforts.
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- Enacting clause stricken
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Teach CPR in High Schools
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Martin Malavé Dilan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
3997
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA, THIELE, CRESPO, KEARNS, WEPRIN, COOK, RAIA, SALADINO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ARROYO, BARRETT, GOTTFRIED, McDONALD, McDONOUGH, PERRY, RIVERA, STECK, TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring that graduates of state high schools be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 804-c of the education law, as added by chapter 269 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
§ 804-c. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation [may] shall be offered [for voluntary admission] as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior high schools. Successful completion of this component of the health education curriculum shall be required for graduation of all students who are physically, mentally and emotionally capable of completing the component. In addition to the requirement that all teachers of health education shall be certified to teach health, persons instructing pupils in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid certification by an agency offering such certification in the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in its instruction.
2. The commissioner [may] shall prescribe regulations governing such health education courses which shall include instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a course of study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets forth standards for instruction of a lesser quality than the requirements of the programs adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.
3. School authorities [that choose to offer such course] shall provide the needed facilities, time and place for the instruction set forth
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials to support such course of study.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to all school years commencing on or after such effective date.
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