Amended
IN
Assembly
April 30, 2015 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Rodriguez (Coauthors: Assembly Members Cooley, Cooper, Cristina Garcia, Maienschein, Mayes, McCarty, O’Donnell, Waldron, and Wood) |
February 13, 2015 |
This bill would instead require a school district or school to provide a comprehensive program in first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training to pupils and employees in accordance with specified guidelines, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
(a)(1)The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(A)Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death in the United States.
(B)Less than 8 percent of people who suffer cardiac arrest outside the hospital survive.
(C)Effective bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) provided immediately after sudden cardiac arrest can double or triple a victim’s chance of survival, but only 32 percent of cardiac arrest victims get CPR from a bystander.
(2)In enacting this section, it is the intent of the Legislature to save lives by giving high school pupils the opportunity to develop psychomotor CPR skills.
(b)A school district or school, individually or jointly with another school district or school, shall provide a comprehensive program in first aid and CPR training to pupils and employees. The program shall be developed using the following guidelines:
(1)The school district or school collaborates with existing local resources, including, but not limited to, parent teacher associations, hospitals, school nurses, fire departments, and other local agencies that promote safety, to make first aid and CPR training available to the pupils and employees of the
school district or school.
(2)Each school district that develops a program, or the school district that has jurisdiction over a school that develops a program, compiles a list of resources for CPR information, to be distributed to all of the schools in the district.
(3)The first aid and CPR training are based on standards that are at least equivalent to the standards currently used by the American Red Cross or the American Heart Association.