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.