Requires every golf course to make available at least one functional cardiac defibrillator and requires that employees of such facility be trained in its proper operation and use.

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A2392A-2011 Actions

• May 23, 2012: REFERRED TO HEALTH
• May 23, 2012: delivered to senate
• May 23, 2012: passed assembly
• May 10, 2012: advanced to third reading cal.545
• May 8, 2012: reported
• May 2, 2012: print number 2392a
• May 2, 2012: amend and recommit to codes
• Feb 7, 2012: reported referred to codes
• Jan 4, 2012: referred to health
• Jun 2, 2011: reported referred to codes
• Jan 18, 2011: referred to health

A2392A-2011 Text

                      S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
  ________________________________________________________________________

                                   2392--A

                         2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  ASSEMBLY

                              January 18, 2011
                                 ___________

  Introduced  by  M. of A. MARKEY, MILLMAN, BENEDETTO, JAFFEE, WEISENBERG,
    MONTESANO, WEPRIN, ROBINSON, ROSENTHAL, SCHIMEL,  ESPINAL,  ZEBROWSKI,
    ORTIZ,  ENGLEBRIGHT, ROBERTS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE,
    ARROYO, BOYLAND, CALHOUN, COLTON, COOK, CRESPO, GOTTFRIED, GRAF, McEN-
    ENY, McKEVITT, MENG, PERRY, REILLY,  P. RIVERA,  SALADINO,  TITONE  --
    read  once  and  referred  to  the Committee on Health -- reported and
    referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee  on
    Codes  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, in  relation  to  requiring  golf
    course  operators  to  make  available at least one functional cardiac
    defibrillator and requiring  that  employees  of  such  facilities  be
    trained in its proper operation and use

    THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
  BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


    Section 1. The public health law is amended by adding  a  new  section
  3000-e to read as follows:

    S 3000-E. FUNCTIONAL CARDIAC DEFIBRILLATOR AT GOLF COURSE. 1.  FOR THE
  PURPOSES  OF  THIS  SECTION,  THE  FOLLOWING  TERMS  SHALL BE DEFINED AS
  FOLLOWS:

    A. "GOLF COURSE" MEANS AN AREA OF LAND LAID OUT FOR GOLF WITH A SERIES
  OF NINE OR EIGHTEEN HOLES  EACH  INCLUDING  TEE,  FAIRWAY,  AND  PUTTING
  GREEN.
    B.  "GOLF  COURSE OPERATOR" MEANS ANY PERSON, FIRM, CORPORATION, PART-
  NERSHIP, UNINCORPORATED ASSOCIATION OR OTHER ENTITY, WHETHER PUBLICLY OR
  PRIVATELY OWNED OR OPERATED, THAT MANAGES ANY GOLF COURSE.
    2. GOLF COURSE OPERATORS SHALL PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN ON-SITE  AUTOMATED
  EXTERNAL  DEFIBRILLATORS  (AED), AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVI-
  SION ONE OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND-B OF THIS ARTICLE, IN QUANTITIES  AND

   EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                        [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                             LBD03496-03-2

 A. 2392--A                          2

  TYPES  DEEMED  BY  THE  COMMISSIONER  TO BE ADEQUATE TO ENSURE READY AND
  APPROPRIATE ACCESS FOR USE DURING EMERGENCIES.
    3.   EVERY GOLF COURSE OPERATOR SHALL HAVE IN ATTENDANCE, AT ALL TIMES
  DURING STAFFED  BUSINESS  HOURS,  AT  LEAST  ONE  INDIVIDUAL  PERFORMING
  EMPLOYMENT  OR  INDIVIDUAL  ACTING  AS  AN  AUTHORIZED  VOLUNTEER WHO IS
  TRAINED, PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION THREE OF SECTION THREE
  THOUSAND-B OF THIS ARTICLE, IN THE OPERATION AND USE OF AN AED.
    4. GOLF COURSE OPERATORS SHALL BE  SUBJECT  TO  THE  REQUIREMENTS  AND
  LIMITATIONS OF SECTION THREE THOUSAND-B OF THIS ARTICLE.
    5.  ANY  GOLF  COURSE OPERATOR, HIS OR HER EMPLOYEE OR OTHER AGENT, OR
  ANY PERSON WHO VOLUNTARILY AND WITHOUT EXPECTATION OF  MONETARY  COMPEN-
  SATION  RENDERS EMERGENCY TREATMENT USING SUCH DEFIBRILLATOR PURSUANT TO
  THIS SECTION, TO A PERSON WHO IS UNCONSCIOUS, ILL OR INJURED, SHALL ONLY
  BE LIABLE PURSUANT TO SECTION THREE THOUSAND-A OF THIS ARTICLE.
    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
  it shall have become a law, provided, however, that effective immediate-
  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any  rules  or  regulations
  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
  authorized and directed to be made  and  completed  on  or  before  such
  effective date.