A11123 • 2025

Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times

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Sponsor: Philip Ramos
Last action: 2026-04-24
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times

Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times and to store such kits in an accessible location and to make such kits available for use by any person who enters the premises of the business.

What This Bill Does

Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times and to store such kits in an accessible location and to make such kits available for use by any person who enters the premises of the business.

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Bill History

2026-04-24 Assembly
REFERRED TO SMALL BUSINESS

Official Summary Text

Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times
Requires small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the premises of the business at all times and to store such kits in an accessible location and to make such kits available for use by any person who enters the premises of the business.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          11123

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                     April 24, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Small Business

        AN ACT to amend the labor law and the public health law, in relation  to
          requiring small businesses to have and maintain a first aid kit on the
          premises of the business at all times

          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  476  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    §  476.  FIRST AID KITS IN SMALL BUSINESSES. ALL BUSINESSES WITH FIFTY
     4  OR LESS EMPLOYEES SHALL PROVIDE EQUIPMENT AND MAINTAIN ON  THE  PREMISES
     5  AT  ALL  TIMES,  A  COMPLETE FIRST AID KIT CONTAINING ALL THAT EQUIPMENT
     6  REASONABLY CALCULATED  TO  PROVIDE  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  AID  TO  INJURED
     7  PERSONS.  SUCH  FIRST  AID  KITS SHALL BE STORED IN A READILY ACCESSIBLE
     8  LOCATION AND AVAILABLE FOR USE BY ANY PERSON WHO ENTERS THE PREMISES  OF
     9  THE BUSINESS.
    10    §  2. Subdivision 1 of section 201 of the public health law is amended
    11  by adding a new paragraph (z) to read as follows:
    12    (Z)  SUPERVISE AND REGULATE COMPLIANCE WITH FIRST AID KIT REQUIREMENTS
    13  PURSUANT TO SECTION FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX  OF  THE  LABOR  LAW.  SUCH
    14  COMPLIANCE  SHALL BE VISUALLY CONFIRMED AND OBSERVED IN CONJUNCTION WITH
    15  ANY OTHER HEALTH OR SAFETY INSPECTION PERFORMED BY THE DEPARTMENT OR  BY
    16  CODE  ENFORCEMENT  PERSONNEL, AS DEFINED IN SECTION THREE HUNDRED SEVEN-
    17  TY-SIX-A OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, THAT IF COMPLIANCE  IS
    18  CONFIRMED BY CODE ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL, SUCH PERSONNEL SHALL NOTIFY THE
    19  DEPARTMENT  OF  COMPLIANCE  WITH SECTION FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTY-SIX OF THE
    20  LABOR LAW.
    21    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09269-01-5