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Senate committee hears bill to require AED accessibility and emergency plans for schools' athletic venues
Summary
Sponsors and medical advocates urged the Senate Education Committee to require accessible automated external defibrillators (AEDs), trained staff, and emergency action plans for school athletic fields and venues, and asked for an appropriation to help under‑resourced schools.
Representative Margaret Dry told the committee House Bill 763 would require schools with grades roughly fourth through 12th to have AEDs "available to" athletic venues when students are participating and to maintain emergency action plans and training for staff.
Dry, an EMT and volunteer American Heart Association trainer, recounted a local cardiac arrest in which a 17‑year‑old was revived on a school athletic field because a nurse and athletic trainers used an on‑site AED. She said a previous…
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