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Senate committee advances bill requiring AEDs and school cardiac response plans
Summary
The Senate Health Committee moved Senate Bill 350 as amended after hours of testimony from parents, educators and medical groups; the measure would require site-specific cardiac emergency response plans and accessible automated external defibrillators (AEDs) at school athletic activities and permits local health departments to help purchase units.
Senator Deb Rogers urged the Senate Health Committee to pass Senate Bill 350, legislation that would require an automated external defibrillator (AED) to be located on the premises where a school athletic activity occurs and call for a site-specific cardiac emergency response plan intended to make an AED accessible within three minutes. "What the legislation does is it requires an AED located on the premises where the athletic activity occurs, and the goal is to be accessible within 3 minutes," Senator Rogers told the committee.
The bill's author framed the measure as an education and safety policy after several testimony speakers described children or young athletes who suffered sudden cardiac arrest. Julie West, whose son collapsed in a football practice, and other parents with personal stories urged lawmakers to approve the bill. Tanya Arts, a teacher and school safety advocate, recounted a student death at…
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