| Chapter 013 |
| 2025 -- H 5083 SUBSTITUTE A Enacted 06/06/2025 |
| A N A C T |
| RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES AND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES -- DAVID CASEY ACT |
Introduced By: Representatives Fellela, Serpa, Messier, Corvese, Ackerman, and Caldwell |
| Date Introduced: January 16, 2025 |
| It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
| SECTION 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "David Casey Act". |
| SECTION 2. Section 23-6.5-4 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-6.5 entitled "Automated |
| External Defibrillators Required at Public Places and Healthcare Facilities" is hereby amended to |
| read as follows: |
| 23-6.5-4. Definitions. |
| The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: |
| (1) “Healthcare facility” means any healthcare facility licensed by the department of health |
| including any institutional health-service provider, facility, or institution, place, building, agency, |
| or portion thereof, whether a partnership or corporation, whether public or private, whether |
| organized for profit or not, used, operated, or engaged in providing healthcare services, including, |
| but not limited to: hospitals; nursing facilities; rehabilitation centers; kidney disease treatment |
| centers; health maintenance organizations; and facilities providing surgical treatment to patients |
| not requiring hospitalization (surgi-centers); hospice care; and physician ambulatory-surgery |
| centers and podiatry ambulatory-surgery centers providing surgical treatment. The term “healthcare |
| facility” also includes organized ambulatory-care facilities that are not part of a hospital but that |
| are organized and operated to provide healthcare services to outpatients, such as: central-services |
| facilities serving more than one healthcare facility or healthcare provider; treatment centers; |
| diagnostic centers; outpatient clinics; infirmaries and health centers; school-based health centers; |
| and neighborhood health centers. The term “healthcare facility” also includes a practitioner’s |
| (physician, dentist, or other healthcare provider) office or group of practitioners’ offices (whether |
| owned and/or operated by a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital or an individual practitioner, alone |
| or as a member of a partnership, professional service corporation, organization, or association). |
| (2) “Public place” means an enclosed area capable of holding three hundred (300) people |
| or more and to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including, but not |
| limited to: banks; bars; educational facilities; laundromats; public or private golf courses; public |
| transportation facilities; reception areas; restaurants; retail food production and marketing |
| establishments; retail service establishments; retail stores; shopping malls; sports arenas; |
| government offices; theaters; and waiting rooms. A private residence is not a “public place” unless |
| it is used as a childcare or adult daycare facility. |
| SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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