A 1665: Requires certain school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver and requires at least one such trained person to be present when and where students eat meals.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1665 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ROSENTHAL, STERN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to requiring certain school staff members to be trained in the Heimlich maneuver The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 904-a 2 to read as follows: 3 § 904-a. Heimlich maneuver. 1. No later than one hundred eighty days 4 after the effective date of this section, school districts, boards of 5 cooperative educational services, county vocational education and exten- 6 sion boards and charter schools shall require at least one staff member 7 in every school building, facility or annex to: 8 a. be trained in the administration of the Heimlich maneuver; and 9 b. have one such person trained in the administration of the Heimlich 10 maneuver be present in the same room while students eat meals, includ- 11 ing, but not limited to lunchrooms, multipurpose rooms, auditoriums and 12 outdoor eating facilities. 13 2. The commissioner is authorized to promulgate regulations for the 14 implementation of this section. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04078-01-5