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NY A03569
Bill
Status
1/28/2025
Primary Sponsor
Angelo Santabarbara
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AI Summary
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Requires all youth league coaches (non-school leagues including club sports, travel teams, and community organization leagues) to complete CPR and AED training approved by the commissioner before coaching
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Training must cover recognizing signs and symptoms of cardiac arrest and sudden cardiac arrest, adult and child CPR administration, and automated external defibrillator use
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Coaches must provide valid evidence of current CPR/AED certification to their youth league before the start of each sports season
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Existing coaches at the time of enactment have 12 months to complete the required training, with the commissioner authorized to extend this deadline
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Coaches with physical disabilities preventing completion of training may continue coaching if accompanied at all times (practices, scrimmages, competitions) by a person who has completed the required training
Legislative Description
Relates to requiring CPR and AED training by youth league coaches; requires youth league coaches to be trained in adult and child CPR and the use of an automated external defibrillator; provides current coaches have one year from the effective date of the law to receive such training; provides that a person who is unable to complete a training due to a physical disability may coach as long as a person who has completed a training is present at all times.
Last Action
referred to health
1/7/2026