N.Y. Education Law § 804-c: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction

§ 804-c. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction. 1. Instructions

regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation may be offered for voluntary

admission as a part of the health education curriculum in all senior

high schools. In addition to the requirement that all teachers of health

education shall be certified to teach health, persons instructing pupils

in cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall possess valid certification by an

agency offering such certification in the performance of cardiopulmonary

resuscitation and in its instruction.

2. The commissioner may prescribe regulations governing such health

education courses which shall include instruction in cardiopulmonary

resuscitation. Such regulations shall in no event prescribe a course of

study in cardiopulmonary resuscitation which sets forth standards for

instruction of a lesser quality than the requirements of the programs

adopted by the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross.

3. School authorities that choose to offer such course shall provide

the needed facilities, time and place for the instruction set forth

herein and shall provide learning aids and curriculum resource materials

to support such course of study.