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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND | |
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY | |
JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2025 | |
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A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS | |
REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES AND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES | |
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Introduced By: Representatives Fellela, Serpa, Messier, Corvese, Ackerman, and | |
Date Introduced: January 16, 2025 | |
Referred To: House Health & Human Services | |
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: | |
1 | SECTION 1. Section 23-6.5-4 of the General Laws in Chapter 23-6.5 entitled "Automated |
2 | External Defibrillators Required at Public Places and Healthcare Facilities" is hereby amended to |
3 | read as follows: |
4 | 23-6.5-4. Definitions. |
5 | The following definitions govern the construction of this chapter: |
6 | (1) “Healthcare facility” means any healthcare facility licensed by the department of health |
7 | including any institutional health-service provider, facility, or institution, place, building, agency, |
8 | or portion thereof, whether a partnership or corporation, whether public or private, whether |
9 | organized for profit or not, used, operated, or engaged in providing healthcare services, including, |
10 | but not limited to: hospitals; nursing facilities; rehabilitation centers; kidney disease treatment |
11 | centers; health maintenance organizations; and facilities providing surgical treatment to patients |
12 | not requiring hospitalization (surgi-centers); hospice care; and physician ambulatory-surgery |
13 | centers and podiatry ambulatory-surgery centers providing surgical treatment. The term “healthcare |
14 | facility” also includes organized ambulatory-care facilities that are not part of a hospital but that |
15 | are organized and operated to provide healthcare services to outpatients, such as: central-services |
16 | facilities serving more than one healthcare facility or healthcare provider; treatment centers; |
17 | diagnostic centers; outpatient clinics; infirmaries and health centers; school-based health centers; |
18 | and neighborhood health centers. The term “healthcare facility” also includes a practitioner’s |
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1 | (physician, dentist, or other healthcare provider) office or group of practitioners’ offices (whether |
2 | owned and/or operated by a hospital or an affiliate of a hospital or an individual practitioner, alone |
3 | or as a member of a partnership, professional service corporation, organization, or association). |
4 | (2) “Public place” means an enclosed area capable of holding three hundred (300) people |
5 | or more and to which the public is invited or in which the public is permitted, including, but not |
6 | limited to: banks; bars; educational facilities; laundromats; public or private golf courses; public |
7 | transportation facilities; reception areas; restaurants; retail food production and marketing |
8 | establishments; retail service establishments; retail stores; shopping malls; sports arenas; |
9 | government offices; theaters; and waiting rooms. A private residence is not a “public place” unless |
10 | it is used as a childcare or adult daycare facility. |
11 | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. |
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EXPLANATION | |
BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL | |
OF | |
A N A C T | |
RELATING TO HEALTH AND SAFETY -- AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATORS | |
REQUIRED AT PUBLIC PLACES AND HEALTHCARE FACILITIES | |
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1 | This act would require public or private golf courses to have an automated external |
2 | defibrillator on the premises. |
3 | This act would take effect upon passage. |
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