By Giddings H.B. No. 821
77R3535 CAS-F
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
1-1 AN ACT
1-2 relating to cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction for public
1-3 school students and to cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid
1-4 training 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. Section 33.086, Education Code, is amended to read
2-5 as follows:
2-6 Sec. 33.086. TRAINING [CERTIFICATION] IN CARDIOPULMONARY
2-7 RESUSCITATION AND FIRST AID. (a) A school district employee who
2-8 serves as the head coach or chief sponsor for an extracurricular
2-9 athletic activity, including cheerleading, sponsored or sanctioned
2-10 by a school district or the University Interscholastic League must:
2-11 (1) be trained [maintain and submit to the district
2-12 proof of current certification] in first aid and cardiopulmonary
2-13 resuscitation [issued] by the American Red Cross, the American
2-14 Heart Association, or another organization that provides equivalent
2-15 training; and
2-16 (2) submit to the district proof of that training that
2-17 is satisfactory to the district [certification].
2-18 (b) Each school district shall adopt procedures necessary
2-19 for administering this section, including procedures for the time
2-20 and manner in which proof of training [current certification] must
2-21 be submitted.
2-22 SECTION 3. (a) Section 28.002(a)(2)(B), Education Code, as
2-23 amended by this Act, applies beginning with the 2001-2002 school
2-24 year.
2-25 (b) Section 33.086, Education Code, as amended by this Act,
2-26 applies beginning January 1, 2002.
2-27 SECTION 4. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
3-1 a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
3-2 provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
3-3 Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
3-4 Act takes effect September 1, 2001.