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New YorkS 25902025-2026 Regular SessionSenate

Requires nonpublic schools provide and maintain on-site automatic external defibrillators on school grounds

Sponsored By: Shelley Mayer (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

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2 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.

Nonpublic schools must provide emergency heart devices

Beginning July 1, 2026, New York nonpublic schools must provide automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at every instructional facility. Education and health commissioners determine the required quantities and types; schools must maintain and test them under manufacturer and government standards. At least one AED-trained staff member must attend school-sponsored or approved curricular and extracurricular events at school facilities, and school-sponsored athletic contests anywhere. Schools must also provide an on-site AED for school-sponsored competitive athletic events held away from school facilities. Schools must post AED location signs at building entrances and report each device's existence, location, and type to the regional emergency services council. Every AED use on a patient in a nonpublic school must be reported immediately to the appropriate local emergency medical services system, emergency communications center, or emergency vehicle dispatch center.

School heart-device users face training rules

Beginning July 1, 2026, AED users in New York nonpublic school facilities generally must complete an approved training course. Approval must come from a nationally recognized organization or the State Emergency Medical Services Council. Exceptions cover licensed health practitioners and people certified under public health law acting within their lawful scope, plus people following a lawful prescription. An exception also covers people acting outside employment, in good faith, with reasonable care, and without expecting payment. Existing Good Samaritan protections remain; covered AED use counts as first aid or emergency treatment under liability laws, not unlawful professional practice.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Shelley Mayer

    Democratic • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Lea Webb

    Democratic • Senate

  • Robert Jackson

    Democratic • Senate

  • Steve Rhoads

    Republican • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 221 • No: 0

House vote • 5/21/2025

Assembly floor vote

Yes: 143 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/1/2025

FLOOR Vote

Yes: 63 • No: 0

committee vote • 3/4/2025

Education Committee Vote

Yes: 15 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. SIGNED CHAP.422

    9/26/2025Senate

  2. DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR

    9/22/2025Senate

  3. RETURNED TO SENATE

    5/21/2025House

  4. PASSED ASSEMBLY

    5/21/2025House

  5. ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.224

    5/21/2025House

  6. SUBSTITUTED FOR A6486

    5/21/2025House

  7. REFERRED TO EDUCATION

    4/1/2025House

  8. DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

    4/1/2025Senate

  9. PASSED SENATE

    4/1/2025Senate

  10. ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

    3/10/2025Senate

  11. 2ND REPORT CAL.

    3/5/2025Senate

  12. 1ST REPORT CAL.451

    3/4/2025Senate

  13. REFERRED TO EDUCATION

    1/21/2025Senate

Bill Text

  • Original

    1/21/2025

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