78R4995 MXM-D

By:  Barrientos                                                   S.B. No. 847



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to certain state agencies maintaining automated external 
defibrillators on the premises.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Chapter 779, Health and Safety Code, is amended 
by adding Section 779.009 to read as follows:
	Sec. 779.009.  AUTOMATED EXTERNAL DEFIBRILLATOR AT CERTAIN 
STATE AGENCIES.  (a)  In this section, "state agency" means a 
department, commission, board, office, authority, council, or 
other governmental entity in the executive branch of government 
that is created by the constitution or a statute of this state and 
has authority not limited to a geographical portion of the state. 
The term does not include a university system or institution of 
higher education as defined by Section 61.003, Education Code.
	(b)  A state agency shall have available an automated 
external defibrillator at each location at which the state agency 
has 100 or more full-time equivalent employees.
	(c)  The state agency may accept an automated external 
defibrillator as a gift to meet the requirements of this section.
	SECTION 2.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2003.