Assembly Bill A8438

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires paid emergency responders to be retrained annually in CPR and creates the offense of failure to administer CPR

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A8438 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add Part 3 Title H Art 137 §§137.00 - 137.05, Pen L; add §208-h, Gen Muni L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A4762
2013-2014: A6513

2015-A8438 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires paid emergency responders to be retrained annually in CPR and creates the offense of failure to administer CPR in the first and second degrees.

2015-A8438 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  8438

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             October 9, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to creating  the  offense  of
  failure  to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and to amend the
  general municipal law, in relation to requiring paid emergency respon-
  ders to be retrained annually in cardiopulmonary resuscitation

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

  Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
"Briana's Law".
  S 2. Title H of part 3 of the penal law is amended  by  adding  a  new
article 137 to read as follows:
                               ARTICLE 137
            FAILURE TO ADMINISTER CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
SECTION 137.00 FAILURE  TO  ADMINISTER  CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION IN
                 THE SECOND DEGREE.
        137.05 FAILURE TO ADMINISTER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION  IN
                 THE FIRST DEGREE.
S 137.00 FAILURE  TO  ADMINISTER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION  IN THE
           SECOND DEGREE.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF FAILURE TO ADMINISTER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCI-
TATION IN THE SECOND DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE, ACTING IN HIS OR HER CAPACI-
TY  AS  A PAID EMERGENCY RESPONDER INCLUDING POLICE OFFICERS; FIREFIGHT-
ERS;  AND  EMERGENCY   MEDICAL   TECHNICIANS   REFUSES   TO   ADMINISTER
CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION, AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION
SIX HUNDRED TWENTY-ONE OF THE GENERAL BUSINESS LAW, TO SOMEONE  IN  NEED
OF SUCH CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.
  FAILURE  TO  ADMINISTER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION  IN THE SECOND
DEGREE IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
S  137.05 FAILURE TO ADMINISTER  CARDIOPULMONARY  RESUSCITATION  IN  THE
           FIRST DEGREE.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD03649-01-5
              

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