By Gallegos                                            S.B. No. 547
       74R5695 KKA-D
                                 A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
    1-1                                AN ACT
    1-2  relating to emergency care instruction in public school health
    1-3  classes.
    1-4        BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
    1-5        SECTION 1.  Section 21.101, Education Code, is amended by
    1-6  amending Subsection (a) and adding Subsection (j) to read as
    1-7  follows:
    1-8        (a)  Each school district that offers prekindergarten through
    1-9  grade 12 shall offer a well-balanced curriculum that includes:
   1-10              (1)  English language arts;
   1-11              (2)  other languages, to the extent possible;
   1-12              (3)  mathematics;
   1-13              (4)  science;
   1-14              (5)  health, with specific instruction in skills and
   1-15  procedures for emergency care, including first aid for a person who
   1-16  is choking, not breathing, or in cardiac distress or arrest;
   1-17              (6)  physical education;
   1-18              (7)  fine arts;
   1-19              (8)  social studies;
   1-20              (9)  economics, with emphasis on the free enterprise
   1-21  system and its benefits;
   1-22              (10)  business education;
   1-23              (11)  vocational education; and
   1-24              (12)  Texas and United States history as individual
    2-1  subjects and in reading courses.
    2-2        (j)  A school district may contract with or accept services
    2-3  from a qualified public or private entity to provide the
    2-4  instruction in emergency care required by Subsection (a)(5).
    2-5        SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 1995-1996
    2-6  school year.
    2-7        SECTION 3.  The importance of this legislation and the
    2-8  crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
    2-9  emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
   2-10  constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
   2-11  days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
   2-12  and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
   2-13  passage, and it is so enacted.