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House panel advances bill to require bleeding-control kits and training in schools
Summary
A House subcommittee approved Delegate Clark’s substitute to require at least two trained staff in each school building and bleeding-control kits, sending the bill to appropriations after a 6–2 vote.
A Virginia House K-12 Education Subcommittee on Jan. 15 voted to report House Bill 1700 to appropriations after adopting a substitute that would require at least two staff members in each public school building — one of whom may be a school resource officer — to receive training and have access to bleeding-control kits.
The substitute replaces broader language that had applied training to “every school board employee.” The bill’s sponsor, Delegate Clark, said the requirement is intended to reduce deaths from uncontrolled bleeding following severe trauma and modeled the change on measures used by the American College of Surgeons’ Stop the Bleed campaign.
Why it matters: Trauma surgeons and emergency responders told the subcommittee uncontrolled bleeding…
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