By Giddings                                            H.B. No. 578
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                                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.