By Giddings H.B. No. 858 74R4315 ESH-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for public 1-3 school students. 1-4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-5 SECTION 1. Section 21.101(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-6 read as follows: 1-7 (a) Each school district that offers prekindergarten through 1-8 grade 12 shall offer a well-balanced curriculum that includes: 1-9 (1) English language arts; 1-10 (2) other languages, to the extent possible; 1-11 (3) mathematics; 1-12 (4) science; 1-13 (5) health, with specific instruction in the 1-14 principles and techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) 1-15 given at least once at the seventh grade level or above; 1-16 (6) physical education; 1-17 (7) fine arts; 1-18 (8) social studies; 1-19 (9) economics, with emphasis on the free enterprise 1-20 system and its benefits; 1-21 (10) business education; 1-22 (11) vocational education; and 1-23 (12) Texas and United States history as individual 1-24 subjects and in reading courses. 2-1 SECTION 2. Section 21.101(a)(5), Education Code, as amended 2-2 by this Act, applies beginning with the 1995-1996 school year. 2-3 SECTION 3. The importance of this legislation and the 2-4 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-5 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-6 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 2-7 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 2-8 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 2-9 passage, and it is so enacted.