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Committee backs bill requiring venue-specific emergency plans and defined medical staffing for high school football games
Summary
House Bill 935, as amended, requires public and private high schools to include game-specific emergency-action-plan provisions—naming acceptable health personnel, allowing nearby ambulances to count, permitting volunteers and enabling ambulances to leave for calls; the committee passed the bill favorably as amended.
The Ways and Means Committee on March 11 passed House Bill 935 as amended, requiring public and nonpublic schools to incorporate venue-specific emergency-action-plan safety policies for high school football games.
Under the bill as amended, policies must require certain health personnel at each high school football game or that an ambulance with appropriate emergency medical services personnel be present. Acceptable individuals include a nurse (LPN or RN), a physician, someone licensed to provide emergency medical services (EMTs) and athletic trainers; the amendments clarify that those…
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