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House Education Committee OKs bill adding CPR training to student-athlete safety law
Summary
The House Education Committee voted to pass SB 226 to add a CPR requirement to Arkansas’s 2017 sudden cardiac arrest prevention law, targeting coaches, volunteers and spirit coaches who supervise student athletics.
The House Education Committee voted to pass SB 226 on a voice vote after hearing sponsors say the measure would add a cardiopulmonary resuscitation component to Arkansas’s 2017 sudden cardiac arrest prevention law to bolster student-athlete safety.
Senator Greg Letting, presenting the bill, said the 2017 law left out a cardiac-arrest component and that updating it to require CPR training for people supervising athletics would help protect student athletes. “The fiscal note shows there’d be no cost…
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