By Giddings H.B. No. 578 76R2033 CAS-D A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1-1 AN ACT 1-2 relating to instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for public 1-3 school students and to certification in cardiopulmonary 1-4 resuscitation and first aid of certain school district personnel. 1-5 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: 1-6 SECTION 1. Section 28.002(a), Education Code, is amended to 1-7 read as follows: 1-8 (a) Each school district that offers kindergarten through 1-9 grade 12 shall offer, as a required curriculum: 1-10 (1) a foundation curriculum that includes: 1-11 (A) English language arts; 1-12 (B) mathematics; 1-13 (C) science; and 1-14 (D) social studies, consisting of Texas, United 1-15 States, and world history, government, and geography; and 1-16 (2) an enrichment curriculum that includes: 1-17 (A) to the extent possible, languages other than 1-18 English; 1-19 (B) health, with specific instruction in the 1-20 principles and techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation given at 1-21 least once at the seventh grade level or above; 1-22 (C) physical education; 1-23 (D) fine arts; 1-24 (E) economics, with emphasis on the free 2-1 enterprise system and its benefits; 2-2 (F) career and technology education; and 2-3 (G) technology applications. 2-4 SECTION 2. Subchapter D, Chapter 33, Education Code, is 2-5 amended by adding Section 33.086 to read as follows: 2-6 Sec. 33.086. CERTIFICATION IN CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION 2-7 AND FIRST AID. (a) A school district employee who serves as a 2-8 coach, including as an assistant coach, for an extracurricular 2-9 athletic activity sponsored or sanctioned by a school district or 2-10 the University Interscholastic League must maintain and submit to 2-11 the district proof of current certification in first aid and 2-12 cardiopulmonary resuscitation issued by the American Red Cross, the 2-13 American Heart Association, or another organization that provides 2-14 equivalent training and certification. 2-15 (b) Each school district shall adopt procedures necessary 2-16 for administering this section, including procedures for the time 2-17 and manner in which proof of current certification must be 2-18 submitted. 2-19 SECTION 3. (a) Section 28.002(a)(2)(B), Education Code, as 2-20 amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 1999-2000 school 2-21 year. 2-22 (b) Section 33.086, Education Code, as added by this Act, 2-23 applies beginning January 1, 2000. 2-24 SECTION 4. The importance of this legislation and the 2-25 crowded condition of the calendars in both houses create an 2-26 emergency and an imperative public necessity that the 2-27 constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several 3-1 days in each house be suspended, and this rule is hereby suspended, 3-2 and that this Act take effect and be in force from and after its 3-3 passage, and it is so enacted.