Enrolled Bill Summary

            House Bill 821 amends the Education Code to allow the Texas Education Agency to accept donations, including equipment, for use in providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instruction to students. The bill requires the agency to distribute the donations to school districts that provide CPR instruction, and it allows such districts to accept those agency donations as well as other donations, including equipment, for CPR instruction purposes. The bill also requires a school district to provide CPR instruction to the extent that resources are available to it.

            The bill establishes the legislature's intent that each student receive instruction in CPR principles and techniques through the student's school district at least once at the ninth grade level or above, and it strongly encourages each district to aggressively pursue donations of time, equipment, and other resources toward that end.