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Committee advances bill to add ‘Stop the Bleed’ training to high‑school health classes
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to pass House Bill 1014 out of committee, endorsing a plan to add two‑hour hemorrhage‑control training into high‑school health classes and to train school nurses as local instructors.
Madam Chair opened the session and the committee took up House Bill 1014, sponsored for presentation by Representative Julie Mayberry and Senator Bledsoe. Representative Julie Mayberry recounted a weekend emergency involving a family member to illustrate the need for basic hemorrhage‑control skills in communities: “the chainsaw came down the wrong way and cut a slash in his leg about 10 inches from the knee up,” she said, and credited quick action with preventing a…
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