76R13188 CAS-D                           
         By Giddings                                            H.B. No. 578
         Substitute the following for H.B. No. 578:
         By Sadler                                          C.S.H.B. No. 578
                                A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 1-1                                   AN ACT
 1-2     relating to staff development training and certification in
 1-3     cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid of school district
 1-4     personnel.
 1-5           BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
 1-6           SECTION 1.  Section 21.451(a), Education Code, is amended to
 1-7     read as follows:
 1-8           (a)  The staff development provided by a school district must
 1-9     be conducted in accordance with minimum standards developed by the
1-10     commissioner for program planning, preparation, and improvement.
1-11     The staff development:
1-12                 (1)  must include:
1-13                       (A)  technology training and training in conflict
1-14     resolution and discipline strategies; and
1-15                       (B)  training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
1-16     and first aid; and
1-17                 (2)  may include instruction as to what is permissible
1-18     under law, including opinions of the United States Supreme Court,
1-19     in regard to prayers in public school.
1-20           SECTION 2.  Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is
1-21     amended by adding Section 33.086 to read as follows:
1-22           Sec. 33.086.  CERTIFICATION IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION
1-23     AND FIRST AID.  (a)  A school district employee who serves as the
1-24     head coach or chief sponsor for an extracurricular athletic
 2-1     activity, including cheerleading, sponsored or sanctioned by a
 2-2     school district or the University Interscholastic League must
 2-3     maintain and submit to the district proof of current certification
 2-4     in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid issued by the
 2-5     American Red Cross, the American Heart Association, or another
 2-6     organization that provides equivalent training and certification.
 2-7           (b)  Each school district shall adopt procedures necessary
 2-8     for administering this section, including procedures for the time
 2-9     and manner in which proof of current certification  must be
2-10     submitted.
2-11           SECTION 3.  (a)  Section 21.451(a), Education Code, as
2-12     amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 1999-2000 school
2-13     year.
2-14           (b)  Section 33.086, Education Code, as added by this Act,
2-15     applies beginning January 1, 2000.
2-16           SECTION 4.  The importance of this legislation and the
2-17     crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an
2-18     emergency and an imperative public necessity that the
2-19     constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several
2-20     days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended,
2-21     and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its
2-22     passage, and it is so enacted.