S10009 • 2025

Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment

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Sponsor: Christopher Ryan
Last action: 2026-06-05
Official status: In Senate Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment

Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment unless it is established that such employee was grossly negligent in providing such first aid or emergency treatment.

What This Bill Does

Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment unless it is established that such employee was grossly negligent in providing such first aid or emergency treatment.

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Bill History

2026-06-05 Senate
COMMITTED TO RULES
2026-05-21 Senate
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
2026-05-20 Senate
2ND REPORT CAL.
2026-05-19 Senate
1ST REPORT CAL.1240
2026-04-22 Senate
REFERRED TO HEALTH

Official Summary Text

Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment
Prohibits adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emergency treatment unless it is established that such employee was grossly negligent in providing such first aid or emergency treatment.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          10009

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                     April 22, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. C. RYAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Health

        AN ACT to amend the  public  health  law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
          adverse employment action where an employee renders first aid or emer-
          gency treatment

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 3000-a of the public health law is
     2  renumbered subdivision 3 and a new subdivision 2 is  added  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    2.  NO  EMPLOYEE,  WHETHER  IN  PUBLIC OR PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT, SHALL BE
     5  SUBJECT TO ANY ADVERSE EMPLOYMENT ACTION, HAVE THEIR  TERMS  AND  CONDI-
     6  TIONS  OF  EMPLOYMENT ALTERED, OR BE SUBJECT TO DISCIPLINE OR REPRIMAND,
     7  WHERE SUCH EMPLOYEE VOLUNTARILY  AND  WITHOUT  EXPECTATION  OF  MONETARY
     8  COMPENSATION,  RENDERS  FIRST AID OR EMERGENCY TREATMENT AT THE SCENE OF
     9  AN ACCIDENT OR OTHER EMERGENCY OUTSIDE A HOSPITAL,  DOCTOR'S  OFFICE  OR
    10  ANY  OTHER  PLACE HAVING PROPER AND NECESSARY MEDICAL EQUIPMENT IN CLOSE
    11  PROXIMITY, TO A PERSON WHO IS UNCONSCIOUS, ILL, OR INJURED, UNLESS IT IS
    12  ESTABLISHED THAT SUCH EMPLOYEE WAS GROSSLY NEGLIGENT IN  PROVIDING  SUCH
    13  FIRST AID OR EMERGENCY TREATMENT.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15309-01-6