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Committee backs pilot program for outdoor learning spaces and removes physician requirement for school AEDs
Summary
Senate Bill 148, approved by the committee, would authorize a Department of Education pilot for outdoor education spaces and clarify state AED requirements by removing a separately required physician-signoff that schools say has complicated implementation.
Senate Bill 148 passed the committee after sponsors described a pilot to expand outdoor learning spaces and an amendment that would ease the requirement for physician oversight of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in K–12 schools.
The sponsor said the proposal would authorize the State Department of Education to select elementary and secondary schools for a pilot program testing best practices and design standards for outdoor learning spaces; the sponsor said the department had identified a “dozen” candidate schools and that private foundations and local funds could be used alongside a prospective House appropriation. The sponsor noted an amendment increasing teacher personal…
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