The New York City Council - File #: Int 0189-2018

• File #: Int 0189-2018
• Version: A
• Name: Requiring defibrillators at softball fields where youth leagues play.
• Type: Introduction
• Status: Enacted
• File created: 1/31/2018
• In control: Committee on Health
• On agenda: 1/31/2018
• Final action: 6/23/2018
• Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring defibrillators at softball fields where youth leagues play
• Sponsors: Steven Matteo, Justin L. Brannan, Ben Kallos, Alicka Ampry-Samuel , Stephen T. Levin

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/27/2018	A	City Council	Returned Unsigned by Mayor
6/23/2018	A	Administration	City Charter Rule Adopted
5/23/2018	A	City Council	Sent to Mayor by Council
5/23/2018	A	City Council	Approved by Council	Pass
5/22/2018	*	Committee on Health	Hearing Held by Committee
5/22/2018	*	Committee on Health	Amendment Proposed by Comm
5/22/2018	*	Committee on Health	Amended by Committee
5/22/2018	A	Committee on Health	Approved by Committee	Pass
4/16/2018	*	Committee on Parks and Recreation	Laid Over by Committee
4/16/2018	*	Committee on Parks and Recreation	Hearing Held by Committee
4/16/2018	*	Committee on Health	Laid Over by Committee
4/16/2018	*	Committee on Health	Hearing Held by Committee
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Referred to Comm by Council
1/31/2018	*	City Council	Introduced by Council

Int. No. 189-A
By Council Members Matteo, Brannan, Kallos, Ampry-Samuel and Levin

Title
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to requiring defibrillators at softball fields where youth leagues play
Body

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

Section 1. Section 4-209 of the administrative code of the city of New York, subdivision b as amended by local law number 104 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:
? 4-209 Automated external defibrillators at youth baseball and youth softball games and practices on city land leased to youth leagues. a. Definitions. As used in this section, the following terms have the following meanings:
Automated external defibrillator. The term "automated external defibrillator" means a medical device, approved by the United States food and drug administration, that: (i) is capable of recognizing the presence or absence in a patient of ventricular fibrillation and rapid ventricular tachycardia; (ii) is capable of determining, without intervention by an individual, whether defibrillation should be performed on a patient; (iii) upon determining that defibrillation should be performed, automatically charges and requests delivery of an electrical impulse to a patient's heart; and (iv) upon action by an individual, delivers an appropriate electrical impulse to a patient's heart to perform defibrillation.
Department. The term "department" means the department of citywide administrative services or any successor of such department.
Training course. The term "training course" means a course approved by a nationally-recognized organization or the state emergency medical services council in the operation of automated external defibrillators.
Youth baseball league. The term "youth baseball league" means baseball leagues with participants who are all 17 years old or younger, but includes grade school through high school athletic programs regardless of the a...