What's happening
This bill requires home care service workers in New York to receive CPR training and certification every two years.
Why it matters
Enhanced emergency preparedness for vulnerable populations. By requiring home care service workers to maintain CPR certification, the bill ensures that individuals receiving care at home—often elderly or medically fragile—have someone nearby who can provide potentially life-saving aid during cardiac emergencies.
Standardizes skill levels across the workforce. Mandating biennial (every two years) CPR training and certification ensures that all home care workers meet up-to-date, nationally recognized standards (American Red Cross or American Heart Association), reducing variability in emergency response capabilities.
Potential impact on workforce requirements and costs. Agencies and workers will need to invest time and resources to complete and maintain certification, which could affect hiring, training budgets, and scheduling, but may also lead to higher professional standards in the field.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
739
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health
AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to requiring regulations mandating home care service workers to receive biennial CPR training
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding a new section 3604 to read as follows:
§ 3604. Mandatory cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. The commissioner shall promulgate regulations requiring home care service workers providing home care services under this article to receive biennial cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and certification. The rules and regulations shall require such training and certifications to be maintained as current pursuant to the requirements established by the American Red Cross or the American Heart Association.
§ 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03323-01-9
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