What's happening
This bill requires schools to provide information and establish protocols for students at risk of sudden cardiac arrest, including education, management teams, and updated coach training.
Why it matters
Increases transparency and parent awareness. by requiring schools to include cardiac arrest risk information in sports permission forms and on their websites, so families are better informed about warning signs and risks before student participation.
Encourages proactive school planning. by allowing (but not mandating) schools to create dedicated sudden cardiac arrest management teams, bringing together medical staff, coaches, and administrators to coordinate prevention and response efforts.
Mandates updated training for coaches. , ensuring they are taught to recognize the signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest in addition to standard first aid and CPR, potentially improving early intervention and student safety during athletic activities.
Standardizes information and resources statewide. by directing state health and education departments to create and distribute consistent guidelines and educational materials, reducing disparities in how schools address and communicate about cardiac risks.
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Who cares
Student athletes and their parents
Schools would have to include information about sudden cardiac arrest signs, symptoms and athletic participation guidelines in sports permission or consent forms.
Public and nonpublic school coaches
Required first-aid training would include recognizing signs and symptoms of pending or increased risk of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac arrest.
School districts, athletic directors and school health staff
Districts could establish sudden cardiac arrest management teams that may provide annual information to parents.
State Health and Education departments
They would develop, review and post sudden cardiac arrest information, and the Education Department would issue rules authorizing district management teams.
Headline styles
Prevent Student Cardiac Arrests
Plain English, a few words. Used as the page title.
Sponsors
12 Co-sponsors
2 Multi-sponsors
History
- Print number 4876a
- Amend (t) and recommit to ways and means
- Referred to ways and means
- Reported referred to ways and means
- Referred to education
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.
Prevent Sudden Cardiac Arrests
In Senate Committee · Finance · Sponsor Jim Gaughran
Full text
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4876--A
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 5, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. AUBRY, D'URSO, HYNDMAN, NIOU, ORTIZ, CAHILL, L. ROSENTHAL, JAFFEE, BLAKE, SEAWRIGHT, THIELE, BARNWELL -- Multi- Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education -- reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means 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 public health law and the education law, in relation to directing the commissioners of education and health to establish rules and regulations for the treatment and monitoring of students of school districts, boards of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools who exhibit signs or symptoms of pending or increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Dominic Murray sudden cardiac arrest prevention act".
§ 2. Section 206 of the public health law is amended by adding a new subdivision 31 to read as follows:
31. The commissioner shall develop information that is reviewed by the commissioner of education related to students who exhibit signs or symptoms of pending or increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Such information shall include, but not be limited to, the definition of sudden cardiac arrest, signs and symptoms of sudden cardiac arrest, and guidelines for a student's participation in interscholastic athletics after exhibiting signs or symptoms of pending or increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Such information shall be posted on the department's website.
§ 3. The education law is amended by adding a new section 923 to read as follows:
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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§ 923. Sudden cardiac arrest. a. The commissioner shall review the information developed by the commissioner of health required by subdivision thirty-one of section two hundred six of the public health law to assist in the education and awareness of the signs and symptoms of pending or increased risk of sudden cardiac arrest. Such information shall be posted on the department's website. In addition, each school shall be required to include such information reviewed by the department and developed by the department of health in any permission form or parent or person in parental relation consent form or similar document that may be required for a student's participation in interscholastic athletics and shall also include such information, or reference how to obtain such information from the department and the department of health's websites, on the school's website, if one exists.
b. The commissioner shall promulgate rules and regulations that authorize school districts, in their discretion, to establish a sudden cardiac arrest management team. Such management team shall be composed of an athletic director, a school nurse, a school physician, a coach of the interscholastic team, an athletic trainer or other appropriate personnel as designated by the school or school district. Provided further, every sudden cardiac arrest management team may establish and implement a program that annually provides information on sudden cardiac arrest to parents or persons in parental relation. In developing such rules and regulations, the commissioner shall consider input from stakeholders and other interested parties including, but not limited to, parents, teachers, students, school administrators, school athletic trainers, coaches, medical and health professionals, the public schools athletic league (PSAL), the New York state public high school athletic association (NYSPHSAA), and other athletic associations.
§ 4. Subdivision 1 of section 3001-b of the education law, as added by chapter 498 of the laws of 1991, is amended to read as follows:
1. On and after the effective date of this section, in addition to any provision of law or rule or regulation of the department related to the requirements necessary for teachers within the public school systems, whether certified in physical education or not, to coach any extra-class athletic activity, it shall be required of such teachers, except as provided in subdivision two of this section, to hold a valid certificate of completion of a course of study in first aid knowledge and skills offered by [the American National Red Cross] a nationally recognized organization, as defined in paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section three thousand-b of the public health law and approved by the commissioner, or to meet equivalent requirements as certified by the commissioner. Any such course of study or equivalent requirements must include instruction in recognizing signs and symptoms of pending or increased risk of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac arrest and the administration of adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Prior to the start of each sports season, coaches must provide valid evidence to their chief school officer that their first aid and adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills are current pursuant to the requirements established by [the American National Red Cross] a nationally recognized organization, as defined in paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section three thousand-b of the public health law or that they meet equivalent requirements as certified by the commissioner.
§ 5. Subdivision 1 of section 3001-c of the education law, as added by chapter 39 of the laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
1. On and after the effective date of this section, it shall be required of coaches of high school extra-class athletic activities in a
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nonpublic school system, except as provided in subdivision two of this section, to hold a valid certificate of completion of a course of study in first aid knowledge and skills offered by [the American National Red Cross] a nationally recognized organization, as defined in paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section three thousand-b of the public health law and approved by the commissioner, or to meet equivalent requirements as certified by the commissioner. Any such course of study or equivalent requirements must include instruction in recognizing signs and symptoms of pending or increased risk of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac arrest and the administration of adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Prior to the start of each sports season, coaches must provide valid evidence to their chief school officer that their first aid and adult cardiopulmonary resuscitation knowledge and skills are current pursuant to the requirements established by [the American National Red Cross] a nationally recognized organization, as defined in paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section three thousand-b of the public health law or that they meet equivalent requirements as certified by the commissioner.
§ 6. This act shall take effect on the first of July next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.
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