Amend CSHB 496 (senate committee report) as follows:
(1) In SECTION 1 of the bill, in added Section 38.030, Education Code (page 2, between lines 22 and 23), insert the following:
(h) A school district or open-enrollment charter school shall, subject to Subsection (i), require each student enrolled at a campus of the district or school to complete, at least once before the student's graduation and not earlier than during the student's seventh grade year, an agency-approved course of instruction on the use of a bleeding control kit. The course of instruction required under this subsection may be included as a part of the instruction in another course.
(i) A student is not required to complete the course of instruction under Subsection (h) if:
(1) the student has a disability that makes participating in the instruction impractical; or
(2) the student's parent or guardian does not consent to the student receiving the instruction.
(j) For purposes of Subsection (h), the agency must approve a course of instruction that:
(1) has been developed or endorsed by the American College of Surgeons or a similar organization; or
(2) uses nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for bleeding control and incorporates instruction on the psychomotor skills necessary to use a bleeding control kit in the event of an injury to another person.
(k) A course of instruction approved by the agency under Subsection (j) may be provided by emergency medical technicians, paramedics, law enforcement officers, firefighters, representatives of the organization or institution that developed or endorsed the training, educators, other public school employees or other similarly qualified individuals. A course of instruction approved by the agency under Subsection (j) is not required to provide for certification in bleeding control. If the course of instruction does provide for certification in bleeding control, the instructor must be authorized to provide the instruction for the purpose of certification by the organization or institution that developed or endorsed the course of instruction.
(2) In SECTION 2 of the bill (page 2, line 23), between "SECTION 2." and "As soon", insert the following:
(a) Not later than October 1, 2019, the Texas Education Agency shall approve a course of instruction on the use of a bleeding control kit that is appropriate to satisfy the requirement under Section 38.030, Education Code, as added by this Act.
(b)