A 8461: Requires employers to include an epinephrine auto-injector device where first aid kits are required by federal law.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8461 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY May 16, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. STECK, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring employers to include an epinephrine auto-injector device in first aid supplies required by federal law The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 27-f to 2 read as follows: 3 § 27-f. Requiring first aid materials in a workplace to include an 4 epinephrine auto-injector device. 1. All employers that are federally 5 mandated to have first aid supplies readily available for the treatment 6 of all injured employees must include an epinephrine auto-injector 7 device in such first aid supplies. 8 2. For the purposes of this section: 9 (a) "employer" shall include any person, corporation, limited liabil- 10 ity company, or association employing any individual in any occupation, 11 industry, trade, business, or service, but shall not include a govern- 12 mental agency. 13 (b) "epinephrine auto-injector device" shall have the same meaning as 14 provided in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section three thousand-c 15 of the public health law. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 17 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD11941-01-5