79R16224 BDH-D


By:  Vo                                                           H.B. No. 1406

Substitute the following for H.B. No. 1406:                                   

By:  Delisi                                                   C.S.H.B. No. 1406



A BILL TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

relating to the availability of automated external defibrillators 
at certain public school campuses and events.
	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:                        
	SECTION 1.  Subchapter A, Chapter 38, Education Code, is 
amended by adding Section 38.017 to read as follows:
	Sec. 38.017.  AVAILABILITY OF AUTOMATED EXTERNAL 
DEFIBRILLATOR.  (a)  Each school district shall make available at 
each campus in the district and at each University Interscholastic 
League athletic competition held in the district an automated 
external defibrillator, as defined by Section 779.001, Health and 
Safety Code.
	(b)  Each school district shall ensure the presence at each 
location described by Subsection (a) of at least one campus or 
district employee trained in the proper use of an automated 
external defibrillator.
	(c)  A school district may seek and accept gifts, grants, or 
other donations to pay the district's cost of purchasing automated 
external defibrillators required under this section.
	(d)  This section does not apply to an athletic competition 
at which emergency services personnel are present under a contract 
with the school district.
	SECTION 2.  This Act applies beginning with the 2007-2008 
school year.       
	SECTION 3.  This Act takes effect immediately if it receives 
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as 
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution.  If this 
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this 
Act takes effect September 1, 2005.