What's happening
This bill expands the definition of "emergency health care provider" for automated external defibrillator use to include physician assistants and nurse practitioners.
Why it matters
Expanding the pool of qualified emergency responders. By including physician assistants and nurse practitioners as "emergency health care providers" for AED oversight, the bill enables more healthcare professionals to supervise and guide AED use, which could be crucial in settings where a physician is not immediately available.
Improving timely access to lifesaving interventions. Allowing trained PAs and NPs to fulfill this supervisory role may reduce delays in AED implementation during cardiac emergencies, potentially increasing survival rates from sudden cardiac arrest in both medical and non-medical settings.
Reflecting evolving healthcare roles. The bill recognizes the advanced training and growing responsibility of physician assistants and nurse practitioners in emergency care, aligning the law with modern healthcare practice and potentially reducing administrative barriers for organizations wishing to deploy AEDs.
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Expand AED Provider Definition
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History
- Substituted by A7532
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- 1st report cal.906
- Referred to health
Companion bill
The same bill in the other chamber. A bill becomes law when one version passes both houses and the governor signs it, so either number can carry it.
Expand Defibrillator Provider List
Signed by Governor · Sponsor Richard Gottfried
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STATE OF NEW YORK
5718
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 26, 2017
Introduced by Sen. HANNON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to automated external defibrillators
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 3000-b of the public health law, as added by chapter 552 of the laws of 1998, is amended to read as follows:
(b) "Emergency health care provider" means (i) a physician with knowledge and experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care; [or] (ii) a physician assistant or nurse practitioner with knowledge and experience in the delivery of emergency cardiac care, and who is acting within his or her scope of practice; or (iii) a hospital licensed under article twenty-eight of this chapter that provides emergency cardiac care.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law; provided that, effective immediately, the addition, amendment, and/or repeal of any rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11228-01-7
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the public health law, in relation to automated external defibrillators
Purpose
This bill would clarify that any health care practitioner who has the necessary experience, prescribing authority, and scope of practice, may enter into a collaborative agreement with a person or entity seeking to possess and/or operate an automated external defibrillator.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 of the bill amends public health law section 3000-b to define health care practitioner and clarify that any professional who meets this definition may enter into a collaborative agreement with a public access defibrillation provider, in order to facilitate availability.
Section 2 is the effective date.
Justification
Current law allows individuals or entities to purchase and operate automated external defibrillators (AEDs) if the individual or entity has a collaborative agreement with a physician or a hospital. There are many other qualified health care practitioners in New York, such as physician assistants and nurse practitioners, who may be able to facilitate AED access and thereby increase AED availability statewide. This legislation continues the same high safety standards including all training and reporting requirements, while expanding the availability of automated external defibrillators to such practitioners.
Legislative history
New bill
Fiscal implications
None
Effective date
One hundred eighty days after becoming law, provided that effective immediately the commissioners of health and education shall make regulations and take other actions necessary to implement the act on such date.
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